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Gatsby's Secrets: The Hidden Motifs, Moments and Metaphors That Shape Fitzgerald’s Masterpiece
249 pages, Paperback
Published April 4, 2025
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Rob Kyff
11 books1 followerRob Kyff is a writer, teacher and editor. He was the language columnist for the Hartford Courant from 1992 to 2020, and his column “The Word Guy,” distributed by Creators Syndicate, currently appears weekly in newspapers across the nation and is a featured offering on the Arcamax website.
A native of Armonk, N.Y., Kyff earned a B.A. magna cum laude at Amherst College and an M.A. in American studies at the University of Minnesota, where he served as a teaching assistant. He has taught English and history at Kingswood Oxford School in West Hartford, Connecticut, since 1977, and has also served as the school’s director of public affairs, editor of its alumni magazine, and faculty advisor to its student newspaper.
He has written four books: “Word Up! A Lively Look at English”; “Once Upon a Word – True Tales of Word Origins”; “Mark My Words”; and “Gatsby’s Secrets." Kyff’s essays on American history and literature, including writers such as Robert Frost, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman and Thornton Wilder, have appeared in The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, and Baltimore Sun, and his articles and personal essays have appeared in Reader’s Digest, American History Magazine, and Northeast Magazine.
A native of Armonk, N.Y., Kyff earned a B.A. magna cum laude at Amherst College and an M.A. in American studies at the University of Minnesota, where he served as a teaching assistant. He has taught English and history at Kingswood Oxford School in West Hartford, Connecticut, since 1977, and has also served as the school’s director of public affairs, editor of its alumni magazine, and faculty advisor to its student newspaper.
He has written four books: “Word Up! A Lively Look at English”; “Once Upon a Word – True Tales of Word Origins”; “Mark My Words”; and “Gatsby’s Secrets." Kyff’s essays on American history and literature, including writers such as Robert Frost, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman and Thornton Wilder, have appeared in The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, and Baltimore Sun, and his articles and personal essays have appeared in Reader’s Digest, American History Magazine, and Northeast Magazine.
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