"[322] Gertrude Stein posited that Fitzgerald had surpassed contemporary writers such as Hemingway due to his masterful ability to write in natural sentences. The Beautiful and Damned describes a handsome young man and his beautiful wife, who gradually degenerate into a shopworn middle age while they wait for the young man to inherit a large fortune. The Red Cross distributed the novel to prisoners in Japanese and German POW camps. Fitzgerald at his desk circa 1920. [94], In Winter 1921, his wife became pregnant as Fitzgerald worked on his second novel, The Beautiful and Damned, and the couple traveled to his home in St. Paul, Minnesota, to have the child. [258] Upon entering the apartment, Culver stated, "I'm afraid he's dead. [201] Scribner's published Zelda's novel in October 1932, but it was a commercial and critical failure. [281] By the 1950s, he had become a cult figure in American culture and was more widely known than at any period during his lifetime. [303] He could write entertainingly, his detractors conceded, but he gave scant attention to form and construction. He is boozing in a wild manner and has become a nuisance. He was named after a famous ancestor. [60] Several of Fitzgerald's friends opposed the match, as they deemed Zelda ill-suited for him. [111] On October 26, 1921, Zelda gave birth to their daughter and only child Frances Scott "Scottie" Fitzgerald. F. Scott Fitzgerald, in full Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, (born September 24, 1896, St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.died December 21, 1940, Hollywood, California), American short-story writer and novelist famous for his depictions of the Jazz Age (the 1920s), his most brilliant novel being The Great Gatsby (1925). On July 23 rd, 1934, Earl W. Wilkins, an avid reader of Fitzgerald's, sent him a letter. [141] Zelda became infatuated with a French naval aviator, Edouard Jozan. F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author of The Great Gatsby, was born in St. Paul, Minn.; he's associated with that city, as well as Paris, the Riviera and New York. F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in St Paul, Minnesota, one of the states in the Midwest of the USA. The Paper Dolls of Zelda Fitzgerald (128 pages, $25.99). [344][345] Due to this thematic focus, his works became a sensation among college students, and the press depicted him as the standard-bearer for "youth in revolt". , John MALLORY, Isabeau de DAMPIERRE , John de FIENNES, Alinor de PROVENCE , Henri III d'ANGLETERRE. This conference aims to position Fitzgerald as a figure relevant to contemporary theoretical, social, and political concerns. [282], Seven years later, Fitzgerald's friend Edmund Wilson remarked that he now received copious letters from female admirers of Fitzgerald's works and that his flawed alcoholic friend had posthumously become "a semi-divine personage" in the popular imagination. His second novel The Beautiful and Damned was filmed in 1922 and 2010. Fitzgerald was constantly surrounded by social leaches, ever-trying to crawl up the social ladder; people whose sole concern was in partying, not a care for the mysterious Gatsby. What he achieved was an advertising job at $90 a month. MONTGOMERY, Ala. . [283], Decades after his death, Fitzgerald's childhood Summit Terrace home in St. Paul became a National Historic Landmark in 1971. [350] Fitzgerald ridiculed such criticisms,[351] and he opined that blinkered pundits wished to dismiss his works in order to retain their outdated conceptions of American society. [340][341] In contrast to the older Lost Generation to which Fitzgerald and Hemingway belonged, the Jazz Age generation were younger Americans who had been adolescents during World War I and were largely untouched by the devastating conflict's psychological and material horrors. [174] In Hollywood, the Fitzgeralds attended parties where they danced the black bottom and mingled with film stars. [31] Her imperious father Charles Garfield King purportedly told a young Fitzgerald that "poor boys shouldn't think of marrying rich girls. 5 Literary Influences. [290] Believing that prose has a basis in lyric verse,[291] Fitzgerald initially crafted his sentences entirely by ear and, consequently, his earliest efforts contained numerous malapropisms and descriptive non sequiturs which irritated both editors and readers. [13] Fitzgerald attended St. Paul Academy from 1908 to 1911. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was . This is Fitzgeralds most moving book, though it was commercially unsuccessful. [238][422] Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda have appeared as characters in the films Midnight in Paris (2011) and Genius (2016). Fitzgerald lived in a wealthy, upper class community in which social status was based upon wealth. F Scott Fitzgerald's ledger, a detailed chronicle of both his earnings and his life, has been made available online for the first time, giving readers around the world an insight into the daily . [169] After examining it in a public restroom, Hemingway confirmed Fitzgerald's penis to be of average size. This Side of Paradise was a revelation of the new morality of the young; it made Fitzgerald famous. "[359] He "sensed a corruption in the rich and mistrusted their might. 1. [415] His fourth novel Tender Is the Night was made into a 1955 CBS television episode, an eponymous 1962 film, and a BBC television miniseries in 1985. The following is an excerpt from the essay "The Crack-Up," reprinted from The Crack-Up, a compilation of articles written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published in one book by . [117], Following Fitzgerald's adaptation of his story "The Vegetable" into a play, in October 1922, he and Zelda moved to Great Neck, Long Island, to be near Broadway. [73] Abstaining from alcohol and parties,[74] he worked day and night to revise The Romantic Egotist as This Side of Paradisean autobiographical account of his Princeton years and his romances with Ginevra, Zelda, and others. He became a prominent figure in the literary life of the university and made lifelong friendships with Edmund Wilson and John Peale Bishop. The publication of The Great Gatsby prompted poet T. S. Eliot to opine that the novel was the most significant evolution in American fiction since the works of Henry James. [383], Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, who met Fitzgerald during his years abroad in Paris, likened him to "a stupid old woman with whom someone has left a diamond; she is extremely proud of the diamond and shows it to everyone who comes by, and everyone is surprised that such an ignorant old woman should possess so valuable a jewel". Scott and Zelda had a tumultuous relationship, characterized by excessive drinking, partying, and fighting. "[212], With his popularity decreased, Fitzgerald began to suffer financially and, by 1936, his book royalties amounted to $80. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. Today, Key is known for penning "The Star-Spangled Banner.". Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald was one of the most celebrated figures of the 1920s. 00:12. [34][35] While awaiting deployment to the Western front where he hoped to die in combat,[35] he was stationed in a training camp at Fort Leavenworth under the command of Captain Dwight Eisenhower, the future general of the Army and United States President. "[o][400][402] Similarly, Fitzgerald borrowed biographical incidents from his friend, Ludlow Fowler, for his short story "The Rich Boy". F. Scott Fitzgerald was a short story writer and novelist considered one of the pre-eminent authors in the history of . [297] 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. [190] They returned to America in September 1931. Life seemed so promising always when he was around. [423] Other depictions of Fitzgerald include the TV movies Zelda (1993), F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood (1976), The Last of the Belles (1974), and the TV series Z: The Beginning of Everything (2015).[424]. At the Biltmore, Scott did handstands in the lobby,[94] while Zelda slid down the hotel banisters. "[257], The following day, as Fitzgerald annotated his newly arrived Princeton Alumni Weekly,[258] Graham saw him jump from his armchair, grab the mantelpiece, and collapse on the floor without uttering a sound. [67], With dreams of a lucrative career in New York City dashed, Fitzgerald could not convince Zelda that he would be able to support her, and she broke off the engagement in June 1919. His private life, with his wife, Zelda, in both America and France, became almost as celebrated as his novels. [411] Other Fitzgerald short stories have been adapted into episodes of anthology television series,[412] as well as the 2008 film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. [204] Hemingway and others argued that such criticism stemmed from superficial readings of the material and from Depression-era America's reaction to Fitzgerald's status as a symbol of Jazz Age excess. "The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one's mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind". [137] He had already written 18,000 words for his novel by mid-1923 but discarded most of his new story as a false start. [403] Fitzgerald frequently re-read Ginevra's story, and scholars have noted the plot similarities between Ginevra's story and Fitzgerald's novel. [289][360], This preoccupation with the idle lives of America's leisure class in Fitzgerald's fiction attracted criticism. 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