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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald born on September 24, 1896
in Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S. Born into a middle-class familyFitzgerald was raised primarily in New York state. He attended Princeton University but he dropped out in 1917 to join the United States Army during World War I. While stationed in Alabama, he met Zelda Sayre, a Southern debutante who belonged to Montgomery's exclusive country-club set. -
This side of paradise
For his first novel, Fitzgerald used as his literary templates H. G. Wells' 1909 work Tono-Bungay and Sir Compton Mackenzie's 1913 novel Sinister Street. Although Fitzgerald imitated the plot of Mackenzie's novel, his debut work differed remarkably due to its experimental style. He discarded the stodgy narrative technique of most novels and instead unspooled the plot in the form of textual fragments, letters, and poetry intermingled together. -
The beautiful and damned
For his sophomore effort, Fitzgerald discarded the trappings of collegiate bildungsromans and crafted an "ironical-pessimistic" novel in the style of Thomas Hardy's oeuvre. With the publication of The Beautiful and Damned, editor Max Perkins and others commended the conspicuous evolution in the quality of his prose. Whereas This Side of Paradise had featured workmanlike prose and chaotic organization, -
The greats gatsby
The realization that Fitzgerald had improved as a novelist to point that Gatsby was a masterwork was immediately evident to certain members of the literary world. Nine years after the publication of The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald completed his fourth novel Tender Is the Night in 1934. Due to this change, although Fitzgerald showed a mastery of "verbal nuance, -
his death
F. Scott Fitzgerald finally died on December 21, 1940 in Los Angeles, California, U.S, at the age of 44 years old.