How Thomas Boyd of Defiance, Ohio, Lost A Friend
F. Scott Fitzgerald Becomes Incensed Although he seems to have only read about it rather than having read it himself, F. Scott Fitzgerald was so incensed about a “dreary,” “unimaginative,” stereotypical and derivative novel* entitled Samuel Drummond that he excoriated both it and its Ohio author — twenty-seven-year-old Defiance native Thomas Boyd — in a …
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