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F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896, attended Princeton University, and published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. That same year he married Zelda Sayre and the couple divided their time among New York, Paris, and the Riviera, becoming a part of the American expatriate circle that included Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and John Dos Passos. Fitzgerald was a major new literary voice, and his masterpieces include The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender Is the Night. He died of a heart attack in 1940 at the age of forty-four, while working on The Love of the Last Tycoon. For his sharp social insight and... Read full bio

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Which Gatsby is the greatest? Plays go head-to-head in roaring Twenties row
The Independent, February 10, 2012
...British fans of The Great Gatsby, the celebrated novel of F Scott Fitzgerald, can look forward to three stage productions this year and a blockbuster movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Jay Gatsby and acquaintances are set to make the leap from the...
Biography - F. Scott Fitzgerald [VHS]
Zimbio, February 10, 2012
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This Beautiful Life by Helen Schulman - review
Guardian.co.uk, February 10, 2012
...being Gatsbyesque, and there is even a dangerous young woman called Daisy, two of several explicit echoes of F Scott Fitzgerald's classic depiction of American financial immorality. It is no surprise to learn later that Jake has been studying The Great...
For whom the bed tolls
Globe and Mail, February 10, 2012
...Paris before fame and fortune an ode to Hadley and his inner circle of friends, which famously included F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein. As a writer, Im enchanted by his immortalization of the City of Light, his observations about Fitzgeralds...
Alan Singer: Cheating Students Who "Pass" the Test
Huffington Post, February 10, 2012
...work I read all of their novels. But the teachers wanted us to read books by Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulkner, and I just was not ready to move on. However, what I really hated was Herman Melville and Thomas Hardy -- too many...
Fitzgerald's Great American Novel Is Going British
Huffington Post, February 9, 2012
...shine on, as "Great Gatsby" fever spreads across the Atlantic. Though Baz Luhrmann's 3D adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald classic has long been in the works, three very different stage adaptations of "The Great Gatsby" will arrive in the UK this...
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North County Times, February 9, 2012
...in the Tuskegee Airmen program; "The Great Gatsby" (Dec. 25) stars Leonardo DiCaprio in the title role of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic about 1920s blue-bloods; "Won't Back Down" (March 30) casts Viola Davis and Maggie Gyllenhaal as mothers aiming to...