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(1928-2020) Biographer. Scott Donaldson was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and died in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Full Name

Scott Donaldson

Locations

Westchester

Author's Timeline


1928

BIRTH

John Scott Donaldson was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on November 11, 1928.

1972

LITWORK

Poet in America: Winfield Townley Scott
University of Texas Press
978-0292764002
Biography.

1977

LITWORK

By Force of Will: The Life and Art of Ernest Hemingway
Viking
0670198242 / 978-0670198245
Biography.

1983

LITWORK

Fool for Love: F. Scott Fitzgerald
St. Martin's Press
0865530858 / 978-0865530850
Biography.

1984

RESIDENCE

Mr. Donaldson spent the summer of 1984 in Briarcliff Manor, New York, while writing John Cheever: A Biography.

1988

LITWORK

John Cheever: A Biography
Random House
039454921X / 978-0394549217
Biography.

1992

LITWORK

Archibald MacLeish: An American Life
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
0395493269 / 978-0395493267
Biography.

1999

LITWORK

Hemingway vs. Fitzgerald: The Rise and Fall of a Literary Friendship
Abrams Press
0879517115 / 978-0879517113
Biography.

2007

LITWORK

Edwin Arlington Robinson: A Poet's Life
Columbia University Press
0231138423 / 978-0231138420
Biography.

2009

LITWORK

Fitzgerald and Hemingway: Works and Days
Columbia University Press
023114816X / 978-0231148160
Biography.

2015

LITWORK

The Impossible Craft: Literary Biography
Penn State University Press
0271065281 / 978-0271065281
Nonfiction.

2018

LITWORK

The Paris Husband: How It Really Was Between Ernest and Hadley Hemingway
Simply Charly
1943657688 / 9781943657681
Biography.

2020

DEATH

Scott Donaldson died at his home in Scottsdale, Arizona, on December 1, 2020.

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