Английская Википедия:Andrew Turnbull (biographer)

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:For Шаблон:Infobox person Andrew Winchester Turnbull (February 2, 1921Шаблон:SpndJanuary 10, 1970) was an American biographer, scholar, and essayist who wrote acclaimed biographies of novelists F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe.[1]Шаблон:Sfn Turnbull grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, and he met Fitzgerald while the author resided on his family's estate in the 1930s.Шаблон:Sfn After graduating Princeton University and serving in the United States Navy during World War II, Turnbull obtained his doctorate from Harvard University. He taught literature at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brown University. He committed suicide at age 48.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

Biography

Born on February 2, 1921, in Baltimore, Maryland, he was the son of architect Bayard and Margaret Turnbull.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn In 1932, an 11-year-old Turnbull met novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald when the author rented the La Paix estate from his father Bayard.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn As a young man, Turnbull attended St. Andrew's School in Middletown, Delaware. Later, he graduated from Princeton University—Fitzgerald's alma mater—in 1942, where he was a member of the Colonial Club. He served in the United States Navy during World War II.

After the war, Turnbull worked with the Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA) in Paris for several years. He earned his doctorate in European history from Harvard University in 1954.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn He next pursued an academic vocation and worked as an instructor in the humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1954 to 1958.Шаблон:Sfn He also taught at Trinity College in France.Шаблон:Sfn

In his later years, Turnbull taught American literature at Brown University. During this period, he conducted further research on Fitzgerald's life while in Paris and on the French Riviera, contributing several pieces to The New Yorker on the subject in the late 1950s.Шаблон:Sfn

In 1962, Turnbull published his acclaimed biography, Scott Fitzgerald, which the Associated Press lauded as "the best biography of the novelist."Шаблон:Sfn He followed this work with The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1963. After receiving a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1964, he produced another highly praised biography about Fitzgerald's acquaintance and fellow novelist Thomas Wolfe in 1968.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn[1]

Turnbull battled with depression throughout his life and often received psychiatric assistance.Шаблон:Sfn At age 48, while a visiting professor at Brown University, he committed suicide via carbon monoxide poisoning in a closed garage at his Brattle Street home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on January 10, 1970.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn He was survived by his wife, Joanne Johnson Turnbull, and their two daughters.Шаблон:Sfn

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  1. ↑ 1,0 1,1 Шаблон:Harvnb: "The biography of Wolfe, published in 1968, was met with critical acclaim, as was the biography of Fitzgerald, published in 1963."
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