Andrew watson turnbull biography

American biographer (1921–1970)

For other persons named Andrew Turnbull, see Andrew Turnbull (disambiguation).

Andrew Winchester Turnbull (February 2, 1921 – January 10, 1970) was an American biographer, scholar, and essayist who wrote acclaimed biographies of novelists F.

Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe.^[1] Turnbull grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, and first met Fitzgerald when the author lived on his family's property in the 1930s. After graduating Princeton University and serving in the United States Navy during World War II, Turnbull obtained his doctorate from Harvard University.

Andrew watson turnbull biography

He taught literature at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brown University. He committed suicide at age 48.

Biography

Born on February 2, 1921, in Baltimore, Maryland, he was the son of architect Bayard Turnbull and Margaret Carroll Jones Turnbull.

In 1932, an 11-year-old Turnbull met novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald when the aut