Matthew J. Bruccoli

Matthew J. Bruccoli, the Emily Brown Jefferies Emeritus Professor of English at USC, is the author or editor of nearly seventy books. He is the editorial director of the Dictionary of Literary Biography (300+ volumes) and editor for the USC Press series Understanding Contemporary American Literature and Understanding Contemporary British Literature (approaching 100 volumes). He is the foremost F. Scott Fitzgerald scholar and also has published important biographical, bibliographical, and textual studies of Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, John O'Hara, and James Gould Cozzens. Bruccoli has produced distinguished work on detective/crime/espionage writers, including Raymond Chandler, Ross Macdonald, George V. Higgins, and John le Carre.

Among the major Bruccoli collections now housed at Thomas Cooper Library are the Matthew J. and Arlyn Bruccoli Collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald (which also includes works by and about writers associated with Fitzgerald in the 1920s and 1930s) and the Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Collection (which now has more than 4,000 items). Bruccoli's Armed Services Editions Collection (1,300+ volumes published during and after World War II) is about ten titles short of completion. He has also established collections developed through his research and/or friendships with various writers, publishers, and collectors: Stanley Burnshaw; C. E. Frazer Clark, Jr.; Robert Coover; James Dickey; Irvin Faust; George Garrett; Joe Gores; George Greenfield; William Haggard; Joseph Heller; George V. Higgins; John Iggulden; John Jakes; William Jovanovich; Mitchell Kennerly; Ed Lacy; Wallace Markfield; Gerald Petievich; George Plimpton; Budd Schulberg; and George D. Smith (see 22 Collections; An Exhibition from the Matthew J. and Arlyn Bruccoli Collections...In the Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina, 2005).

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