Tag: F. Scott Fitzgerald

• THE HUMAN HEIRS OF MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS

  

  By P.C. Zick – @pczick.bsky.social Last week, I wrote about the inspiration of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings on my life and career. Here is the essay “Human Heirs” that I wrote for the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Essay Contest in 2001 as I left my decades-long teaching career to venture into freelance writing. The essay won first…

  P. C. Zick

  June 17, 2025

  Books by P. C. Zick, historical fiction, Life in the United States, Ramblings of a Writer, Writing Ideas

  Cross Creek, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Florida environment, Florida fiction, Florida nonfiction, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Ross Allen, South Moon Under, The Yearling

• Book Review Friday – The Great Gatsby

  By Patricia Zick @PCZick I am a lover of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. So I was fascinated by director Baz Luhrmann’s attempt to recreate one of my favorite novels on the screen. Not only did the director need a movie so much larger than life, he also needed to outshine the earlier…

  P. C. Zick

  May 17, 2013

  Book Review Friday, Ramblings of a Writer

  1920s, Daisy Buchanan, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby, Leonard diCaprio, Paris, Robert Redfor, The Great Gatsby, Zelda

• A Hemingway Feast

  By Patricia Zick @PCZick Confession time:  I’ve never been a great fan of Ernest Hemingway’s writing. It leaves me cold. That’s not to say he isn’t a brilliant writer; I’m only saying his style of writing is not my favorite. I go more for Fitzgerald and Steinbeck. Nonetheless, I longed to read A Moveable Feast,…

  P. C. Zick

  January 17, 2013

  Ramblings of a Writer, Style and Grace, Writing Ideas

  authors, characters, Ernest Heminway, Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, fiction, Gertrude Stein, John Steinbeck, novels, Paris 1920s, writers, writing