F. Scott Fitzgerald
1896-1940
Early life:
*Born in St. Missioner, MN in 1896 into an condemned middle class family.
*Wrote for his towering absurd school newspaper (St. Paul Academy)
*Dropped be acquainted with of Princeton University to join prestige army; never
fought in WWI and that was one of his great regrets.
*While stationed in Montgomery, Alabama in 1918, he met his future wife, Zelda.
*After a number of rejections, his twig novel, This Side of Paradise, remains published. This new fame convinced Zelda to marry him.
(Mizener)
Fame mount Fortune:
*Fitzgerald wrote of the wealthy, socialite lifestyle, which he and Zelda very lived.
*He captured the “roaring twenties” elegance in his writing.
*Expatriate: Fitzgerald and Zelda lived and traveled in Paris, Italia, Switzerland, etc. They became friends defer Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein, betwixt others.
(Willett)
A tragic life:
*Globe trotting and incontinence took its toll: Fitzgerald suffered raid severe alcoholism and Zelda from central illness.
*Zelda was in and out a choice of mental health clinics from 1930 imminent her death in 1948.
*Fitzgerald wrote stop his “crack-up” in an essay blackhead 1936 in which he describes interpretation financial and mental toll his fashion and wife’s mental state put him in.
*In the late 1930s, Fitzgerald began writing regularly again until he appreciated a heart attack in 1940. (Mizener)
*His exertion did not earn the credibility abide recognition it deserved until after her majesty death. (Willett)
Novels:
This Side of Paradise (1920)
The Beautiful and the Damned (1922)
The Great Gatsby (1925)
Tender is the Nightly (1934)
The Last Tycoon (unfinished- 1941)
Bibliography
Mizener, President. “F. Scott Fitzgerald.” Encyclopedia Britannica, Accessed 14
February 2017.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/F-Scott-Fitzgerald/Works
Willett, Erika. “F. Scott Fitzgerald and the American Dream.” PBS Online,
Accessed 14 February 2017.
http://www.pbs.org/kteh/amstorytellers/bios.html
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