F. Scott Fitzgerald

By irenesofi

  • BORN

    BORN
    September 24, 1896. In Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S.

  • STUDIES

    STUDIES
    He attended Princeton University but he dropped out in 1917
    He join the United States Army during World War I.

  • LITERARY TEMPLATES

    LITERARY TEMPLATES
    For his first novel, he used as his literary templates H. G. Wells' 1909 work Tono-Bungay and Sir Compton Mackenzie's 1913 novel Sinister Street.

  • FIRST NOVEL

    FIRST NOVEL
    finishes and publishes his first novel "This Side Of Paradise"

  • SECOND NOVEL

    SECOND NOVEL
    The Beautiful and Damned, propelled him further into the cultural elite.

  • PREDICTION OF JOHN V.A WEAVER

    PREDICTION OF JOHN V.A WEAVER
    He predicted in 1922 that, as Fitzgerald matured as a writer, he would become regarded as one of the greatest authors of American literature.

  • CATHER'S INFLUENCE

    CATHER'S INFLUENCE
    When composing The Great Gatsby, he was particularly influenced by Cather's 1923 work, A Lost Lady

  • THIRD NOVEL

    THIRD NOVEL
    The Great Gatsby, received generally favorable reviews but was a commercial failure

  • FOURTH NOVEL

    FOURTH NOVEL
    Nine years after the publication of The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald completed his fourth novel Tender Is the Night

  • DIED

    DIED
    He attained sobriety only to die of a heart attack in 1940, at 44.

  • FRIEND NOVEL

    FRIEND NOVEL
    His friend Edmund Wilson edited and published an unfinished fifth novel, The Last Tycoon

  • MATTHEW J. BRUCCOLI

    MATTHEW J. BRUCCOLI
    A new edition was published as The Love of the Last Tycoon, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli.