The Andrew J. Vaught Memorial Lecture in American Literature

 Roger Smith

The quintessential novel of the 1920s reaches its centennial this year. American literature aficionado Roger Smith revisits The Great Gatsby, recounting the novel’s key moments and offering insights into the reasons that Fitzgerald, who died in 1940 believing himself a failure, stands firmly in the canon.

The Learning Center proudly offers this program as the Andrew J. Vaught Memorial Lecture in American Literature. Andy Vaught was a literature teacher from New York who, during his Savannah retirement, enliv­ened an adoring audience at TLC. Roger Smith and he shared a love of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s writing.