Renowned lecturer Charles Scribner III will speak about his family’s relationship with F. Scott Fitzgerald and his own ties to Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby,” the definitive American novel of the past century, at a special lecture entitled From Princeton to Paradise.
The event will take place at the Nassau County Museum of Art on Saturday, May 12 at 3 p.m. Admission is $30 for members and $40 for non-members.
From the beginning of Fitzgerald’s career, his novels were proudly published by Charles Scribner’s Sons. As a sophomore at Princeton, this Charles Scribner — a fifth generation Princetonian — settled down for an evening train ride to Philadelphia with a silver flask and a copy of “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz.”
Four decades later, Scribner offers an evening reflection on his long attachment to Fitzgerald. Trained as an art historian, and the author of several books and articles on Rubens, Scribner has been a popular speaker at numerous venues, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The National Gallery, The Frick Collection and The Morgan Library.
Scribner’s talk is one of many events the Nassau County Museum of Art is hosting this spring to coincide with the exhibit, Anything Goes: The Jazz Age, which they will have on display through July 8.
The Nassau County Museum of Art is located at One Museum Drive in Roslyn Harbor. To sign up for the talk, go to www.nassaumuseum.org or call the museum at 516-484-9337.
