Arthur Moore Mizener (September 3, 1907 – February 15, 1988) was an American professor of English, literary critic, and biographer.[1] After graduating from Princeton, Mizener obtained his master's degree from Harvard. From 1951 until his retirement in 1975, he was Mellon Foundation Professor of English at Cornell University.[1] In 1951, Mizener published the first biography of Jazz Age writer F. Scott Fitzgerald titled The Far Side of Paradise.[2]
In addition to authoring the first biography of Fitzgerald, Mizener proposed the now popular interpretations of Fitzgerald's magnum opusThe Great Gatsby as a criticism of the American Dream and the character of Jay Gatsby as the dream's false prophet.[3][4] He popularized these interpretations in a series of talks titled "The Great Gatsby and the American Dream."[4]
Although Mizener's biography became a commercial success,[2] Fitzgerald's friends such as critic Edmund Wilson believed the work distorted Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's relationship and personalities for the worse.[5][6] Consequently, scholars deemed Andrew Turnbull's 1962 biography Scott Fitzgerald to be a significant correction of the biographical record.
In 1971, Mizener released a biography about writer Ford Madox Ford titled The Saddest Story: A Biography of Ford Madox Ford that received critical acclaim but did not achieve the same commercial success.[2] He later wrote a supplemental Fitzgerald biography titled Scott Fitzgerald And His World.[1] He died on February 15, 1988, at the age of 80.[2]
to the night world of East and West Egg. —ArthurMizener, The Far Side of Paradise (1951) In 1951, Mizener published the first biography of Fitzgerald...
financially better equipped admirers". Mizener 1965, p. 164. Mizener 1965, pp. 135, 140. Mizener 1965, pp. 140–41. Mizener 1965, p. 140: Although Fitzgerald...
biographer ArthurMizener in 1951. He attempted to communicate to Mizener that he had inspired the character of Jay Gatsby. However, Mizener wrongly believed...
Fitzgerald is a biography of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald written by ArthurMizener. Published in 1951 by Houghton Mifflin, it was the first published biography...
biographer ArthurMizener first interpreted the final pages of the novel in the context of the American dream. "The last two pages of the book," Mizener wrote...
American economist (The Modern Corporation and Private Property). ArthurMizener, 80, American professor of English and literary critic (The Far Side...
(Singh 1991) and for teaching students how to read and interpret poetry. ArthurMizener commended Brooks and Warren for offering a new way of teaching poetry:...
d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, Antonia Fraser, Roy Jenkins, Hugh Massingberd, ArthurMizener, and Edith Sitwell. Powell's health declined in his later years after...
Macnaughton quoting from Mizener in NYTBR 16 March 1962, “Behind the Dazzle is a Knowing Eye.” Ellipsis in Macnaughton. Mizener, 1962 Begley, 2014 p. 250:...
Ransom, Robert Lowell, Delmore Schwartz, Eric Bentley, Cleanth Brooks, ArthurMizener, Allen Tate and Yvor Winters. In 1953 Empson was professor of rhetoric...
poetry, admired especially by literary circles, has been compared to that of Arthur Rimbaud. In 1914, he joined the French diplomatic service and spent many...
2002, pp. 23–25, 37. Milford 1970, p. 22. Milford 1970, p. 32; Mizener 1951, p. 70. Mizener 1951, p. 70. Bruccoli 2002, pp. 80, 82: Fitzgerald wished to...
George Orwell, "Arthur Koestler (1944)" , in Collected Essays, (1944), ebooks at University of Adelaide, accessed 25 June 2012 ArthurMizener, "Truth Maybe...
sinister directions. In a review of the early novels in the sequence, ArthurMizener wrote: "Powell makes his great egoists, for all their absurdity, something...
English-speaking secretary to assist Trotsky in Mexico. Wolfe’s friend ArthurMizener, a professor at Yale, provided funds, and in 1937 Wolfe travelled to...
disclosed. ArthurMizener, Fitzgerald's first biographer and friend of Turnbull Andrew Turnbull, Fitzgerald's second biographer and friend of Mizener Matthew...
Archive Mizener, Arthur (April 24, 1960), "Gatsby, 35 Years Later", The New York Times, New York City, retrieved April 20, 2023 Mizener, Arthur (1951)...
is dedicated to the life and work of American painter Janice Biala. ArthurMizener (1971). The Saddest Story: A Biography of Ford Madox Ford. World Publishing...
endows her with a measure of credibility. In a letter to the Post editor ArthurMizener, Mrs. Ginevra King Pirie offered this commentary on the accuracy of...
Muggeridge and Anthony Powell. The Valley of Bones is dedicated to Arthur & Rosemary (ArthurMizener and his wife, Rosemary). Stacey, Bernard. War Dance : A Glossary...
p. 254; Mizener 1951, p. 132. Berg 1978, p. 57; Stagg 1925, p. 9; Fitzgerald 1945, p. 321. Bruccoli 1981, p. 166. Elias 1990, p. 266; Mizener 1951, pp...
Bleil 2008, pp. 65–66. Noden 2003. Mizener 1972. West 2005, p. 21; Smith 2003, p. E1. Smith 2003, p. E1. Mizener 1972; Noden 2003. Milford 1970, p. 28:...
won in 1973 Samuel I. Mintz City College of New York Thomas Hobbes ArthurMizener Cornell University Daniel Seltzer Harvard University Development of...
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