Book Description paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. Review A charming book consisting of letters from an admirer of the author written between 1924 and 1936 it offers an inside look at the Jazz Age Mrs St Clair knew F Scott Fitzgerald The letters and commentary are anything but mundane and give the reader yet another reason to eschew email and fax for old fashioned written correspondence Albemarle Magazine FebMar 1999 page 58Another Charlottesville author stepped into celebrity this month when the Virginia Center for the Book nominated Interlude Letters From a Foreign Correspondent as a contender for its literary award of most outstanding nonfiction work published in 1998 from an article in The Observer Charlottesville VA November 25 1998Congratulations on the publication of Interlude It is a wonderful book from a letter to the author April 2 1998 Walter H Lippincott Director Princeton University PressIt succeeds at what most similar works fail it is interesting The reader grows fond of Mrs St Clair and Roger Greene and the social history content is valuable Fitzgerald provides a bonus Dr Matthews J Bruccoli Jeffries Professor of English University of South CarolinaMary Archer St Clair of Charlottesville has edited her private correspondence between 1924 and 1936 with Associated Press writer Roger D Greene in Interlude Letters from a Foreign Correspondent F Scott Fitzgerald a friend of the authors is mentioned frequently in the letters Mrs St Clairs previous book An American Girl was published in 1991 Richmond Times Dispatch August 9 1998Roger Greenes letters are delightful intelligent and full of passion for life his work and for the young Mary Lou who had captured his heart But this book is more than the story of a man and woman it is the story of an era of great change and hope Excellent reading RH Pruett Editor Pleasant Living Magazine Product Description After a chance meeting in 1924 a blind date at Princeton University Roger D Greene and Mary Archer St Clair corresponded until 1936 Roger Greene a young writer was soon to become a journalist with the London office of the Associated Press and Mary Archer was a vibrant young woman in her twenties Through his letters we are allowed a personal glimpse into the evolution of Roger Greenes infatuation with the lovely Mary Lou and the unique closeness they shared The story captures the improbability of a relationship separated by distance by personal circumstances and other lives His letters also provide a firsthand account of the life of a foreign correspondent as well as the history of our times from the Jazz Age to the Great Depression a period captured vividly in the novels of F Scott Fitzgerald who is present in this story From the Back Cover After seventy years Mrs St Clair is now sharing Roger Greenes private correspondence whose value according to her is now more than personal About the Author Originally from Bluefield West Virginia Mary Archer St Clair attended Holton Arms Junior College in Washington DC She later studied art and architecture at the Finch European School in Versailles France and with a teacher of Renaissance Art in Virginia Mrs St Clair married Dr Wade Hampton St Clair and they had four daughters Her book An American Girl was published in 1991 Mrs St Clair currently lives and writes in Charlottesville Virginia Excerpt Reprinted by permission All rights reserved From the Prologue When I returned from my Grand Tour of Europe that spring there was a letter from him It was tucked in a pile of mail my parents had stacked on my dressing table His letter I kept not because I was madlly in love with him or because I thought I would be one day I just could not throw it away I saved the next letter from him too and the next I have them all Almost seventy years later I open the first letter again. Seller Inventory # SONG1883911214

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