549. READING, LECTURE, AND BOOK SIGNING BY THE AUTHOR OF A NEW PUBLICATION: THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR: F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Thomas Fahy, a nonfiction writer, novelist, and professor of literature and creative writing, has published 19 books. His most recent, The Life of the Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald, was released in November of 2025. He has also published essays on everything from Paris Hilton and 1980s vampire films to contemporary television and theater. His works have been translated into several languages, and he has been interviewed by the Associated Press, Salon, and other publications, as well as radio hosts in the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia, Ireland, and Malaysia. He was recently featured in a documentary about Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood for Arte Television and on the BBC radio program Literary Pursuits. When he is not writing, Dr. Fahy performs regularly as a classical pianist with the New York Piano Society and has appeared in recent concerts at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Merkin Concert Hall, and other venues in New York City. He has a degree in music from the University of California, Davis, and he previously served as an adjunct professor of piano at UNC, Chapel Hill.