Kirk Curnutt, Ph.D., is a scholar of American literature and Chair of the Department of English at Troy University in Montgomery, AL., the city in which F. Scott Fitzgerald first met Zelda Sayre in July 1918. His essay, The Best Cemetery in the South in Which to Kiss a Woman, won the Faulkner Society’s gold medal for Best Essay in 2008 and his novel, Raising Aphrodite, was a finalist in the 2010 novel competition. A passionate devotee of all things Fitzgerald, he is vice-president of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Society, managing editor of its annual Fitzgerald Review, and a board member of the Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum in Montgomery. In addition to publishing several critical studies of American fiction—including the Cambridge Introduction to F. Scott Fitzgerald (2007)—he has authored a novel, Breathing Out the Ghost, which the Indiana Center for the Book recently named Best Fiction in this year’s Best Books of Indiana Awards. His other works include Coffee with Hemingway (2007), an entry in Duncan Baird’s series of imaginary conversations with great historical figures prominently featured in Barnes & Noble cafes across the country, and a story collection, Baby, Let’s Make a Baby (2003).