Kirk Curnutt, Sarah Churchwell and Petina Gappah compare F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zora Neale Hurston’s portrayal of the American South. F. Scott Fitzgerald is renowned for recording the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age in his novels. Zora Neale Hurston, best known for her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, chronicled racial struggles in her work. Kirk Curnutt is editor of All of the Belles, Fitzgerald’s Montgomery stories (inspired by his wife Zelda). Sarah Churchwell is author of Careless People: Murder Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby. Novelist Petina Gappah’s most recent book is Out of Darkness, Shining Light.
This event will be brought to you with the generous support of Dr. Jack Schaeffer & 20 South Battery.