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| | F. Scott Fitzgerald - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Fitzgerald is regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century. | | | However, there is now critical agreement that Fitzgerald intended the title of the book to be The Love of the Last Tycoon, as is reflected in a new 1994 edition of the book, edited by Fitzgerald scholar Matthew Bruccoli of the University of South Carolina. | | | Working at an advertising firm and writing short stories, Fitzgerald was unable to convince Zelda that he would be able to support her. |
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| | The Sensible Thing: Biographies |
| | Fitzgerald wrote his second novel - "The Beautiful and the Damned" a year after they were married. | | | Unfortunately, his paltry salary was not enough to convince Zelda to marry him, and tired of waiting for him to make his fortune, she broke their engagement in 1919. | | | Happily, Scribners finally accepted the novel after Fitzgerald rewrote it for the third time as "This Side of Paradise", and published it a year later. |
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| | GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| | Like the central character of The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald had an intensely romantic imagination; he once called it "a heightened sensitivity to the promises of life." The events of Fitzgerald's own life can be seen as a struggle to realize those promises. | | | It is the story of a psychiatrist who marries one of his patients, and as she slowly recovers, she exhausts his vitality until he is "a man used up." This book, the last one that Fitzgerald ever completed, was considered technically faulty and was commercially unsuccessful. | | | Though he was able to return to university the following fall, Fitzgerald could not overcome the crushing humiliation he felt at the loss of all of his hard-won positions. |
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| | An Introduction to the Novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| | Fitzgerald, however, does not choose to tell the story in chronological sequence, electing instead to focus first on Dick Diver at the high point of his career, following him through his training in a flashback, and ending the novel with his collapse into anonymity. | | | From the beginning of his career as a novelist, Fitzgerald stayed with the subjects and themes that he knew well and that were close to him: wealth, youth, and beauty. | | | Fitzgerald was generous with advice to other writers, most notably to Ring Lardner, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe; but also to struggling unknowns, who wrote to him asking advice and got it. |
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| | F. Scott Fitzgerald - Books and Biography |
| | Fitzgerald met in Paris Joyce who said: "That young man must be mad - I'm afraid he'll do himself some injury." The Beautiful and Damned, Fitzgerald's second novel, depicted Anthony Patch, an intelligent, sensitive but weak man. He spends his grandfather's money in drinking. | | | His father, Edward Fitzgerald, was a salesman, a Southern gentleman, whose furniture business had failed. | | | He was given three names after the writer of The Star Spangled Banner, to whom he was distantly related. |
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| | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| | Fitzgerald's books depicted the golden life that many lead during the 1920's. | | | Another important book by Fitzgerald was his first book, entitled, This Side of Paradise. | | | In many ways The Beautiful and the Damned reflected the wild life of Zelda and Fitzgerald |
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| | Amazon.com: The Great Gatsby: Books: F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| | Fitzgerald is exemplifying that the reader can't make forthright judgements about Gatsby's personal relationships, especially his sexual preference; the reader can only weigh each argument with his personal hopes and determine what is best for himself. | | | Fitzgerald uses this novel as an expression of his views of the nineteenth century. | | | Fitzgerald allows readers insight to the atmosphere of the nineteenth century, as he captures "a feeling of time." Yet, he fails to understand the concept... |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0684801523?v=glance
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| | From Revolution to Reconstruction: Outlines: Outline of American Literature: Modernism and Experimentation: Authors: F. ... |
| | Fitzgerald's secure place in American literature rests primarily on his novel The Great Gatsby (1925), a brilliantly written, economically structured story about the American dream of the self-made man. The protagonist, the mysterious Jay Gatsby, discovers the devastating cost of success in terms of personal fulfillment and love. | | | Other fine works include Tender Is the Night (1934), about a young psychiatrist whose life is doomed by his marriage to an unstable woman, and some stories in the collections Flappers and Philosophers (1920), Tales of the Jazz Age (1922), and All the Sad Young Men (1926). | | | Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald's life resembles a fairy tale. |
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| | A Brief Life of Fitzgerald |
| | Her autobiographical novel generated considerable bitterness between the Fitzgeralds, for he regarded it as pre-empting the material that he was using in his novel-in-progress. | | | After he was dismissed in 1908, when his son was twelve, the family returned to St. Paul and lived comfortably on Mollie Fitzgerald | | | failed at its tryout in November 1923, and Fitzgerald wrote his way out of debt with short stories. |
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http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/biography.html
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| | Fitzgerald, F. Scott on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Fitzgerald also published four excellent short story collections: Flappers and Philosophers (1920), Tales of the Jazz Age (1922), All the Sad Young Men (1926), and Taps at Reveille (1935). | | | Profile view of F. Scott Fitzgerald reading a book, 1920s. | | | It is the story of a bootlegger, Jay Gatsby, whose obsessive dream of wealth and lost love is destroyed by a corrupt reality. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/f/fitzgs1.asp
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| | Heath Anthology of American LiteratureF. Scott Fitzgerald - Author Page |
| | Like many of Fitzgerald’s stories in Tales of the Jazz Age, “May Day” has in it a “touch of disaster”—in this case the violent despair of the down-and-out Yale man Gordon Sterrett—which is set alongside the oblivious pursuit of pleasure by Gordon’s double, his wealthy, man-about-town classmate, Philip Dean. | | | There and at Camp Taylor in Kentucky, Fitzgerald worked on the manuscript of the novel that was to become This Side of Paradise. | | | Foremost among these is a romantic sense of American history as “the most beautiful history in the world...the history of all aspiration—not just the American dream but the human dream.” Yet Fitzgerald tempered the romantic in him with a skeptic’s cold eye. |
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http://college.hmco.com/english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/modern/fitzgerald_fs.html
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| | PAL: F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) |
| | Callahan, John F. Scott Fitzgerald's Evolving American Dream: The "Pursuit of Happines" in Gatsby, Tender Is the Night, and The Last Tycoon." Twentieth century literature 42.3 (Fall 1996): 374-396. | | | "The Maturing of F. Scott Fitzgerald." Twentieth century literature 43.1 (Sprg 1997): 74-93. | | | PS3511 I9 Z6 Cross, K.G.W. Scott Fitzgerald, Writers and Critics. |
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http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap7/fitzgerald.html
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| | F. Scott Fitzgerald - Biography and Works |
| | He followed his first success with The Beautiful and the Damned (1922), and The Great Gatsby (1925) which Fitzgerald considered his masterpiece. | | | Tender is the Night (1934), the story of Dick Diver and his schizophrenic wife Nicole, goes some way to show the pain that Fitzgerald felt. | | | So, my question would be this: Is Fitzgerald trying to show how beauty leads to nihilism (a word that crops up several times in the book), because it condemns, or “damns” people to shallowness? |
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http://www.online-literature.com/fitzgerald
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| | Featured Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| | The Times printed a 1933 letter from Fitzgerald to his daughter, which included advice such as, "All I believe in in life is the rewards for virtue (according to your talents) and the punishments for not fulfilling your duties, which are doubly costly." | | | A half-century after it was written, an unpublished short story by Fitzgerald -- rejected by Redbook but now seen by scholars as a forerunner of black humor and a new insight into the author's time of despair -- finally appeared in print. | | | In an essay about "The Crack-Up," a posthumous book of miscellaneous Fitzgerald writing edited by Edmund Wilson, O'Hara writes, "I regard its publication as an unfriendly act." |
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http://partners.nytimes.com/books/00/12/24/specials/fitzgerald.html
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| | Amazon.com: The Crack-Up: Books: F. Scott Fitzgerald,Edmund Wilson |
| | Originally written as three essays for Esquire in 1936, "The Crack-Up" was Fitzgerald's bearing of his soul, his confession, his mea culpa to the world at large for letting them -- and himself -- down. | | | Maturity was forced upon Scott and in these short confessions he reveals that all was not well in paradise. | | | He was able to capture all of this so clearly because it was the life that he and Zelda aspired to and, from time to time, lived. |
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| | The Jazz Age: Flapper Culture & Style |
| | A handsome and gregarious man, Fitzgerald became famous with the publication of his first novel This Side of Paradise (1920). | | | Fitzgerald's novels include The Beautiful and the Damned (1922) and The Great Gatsby (1925). | | | The author was among the first writers to draw attention to the new post-World War I sophistication, particularly such phenomena as petting parties and youthful love affairs. |
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| | F. Scott Fitzgerald - Wikiquote |
| | The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. | | | But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read. | | | Full texts of Fitzgerald's early works from Project Gutenberg |
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| | Fitzgerald |
| | Among his short stories that addressed the aspirations of the generation coming of age in the Roaring Twenties, many continue to appear in popular, literary anthologies today. | | | He reportedly remarked at this time to his friend, Edmund Wilson, " I want to be the greatest writer who ever lived, don't you"? | | | Links to Fitzgerald and his work, archives of class discussions, samples of research by students |
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| | F. Scott Fitzgerald Walking Tour of St. Paul, MN |
| | Scott visited several other young authors here while he was revising his novel. | | | This was the home of one of Scott's best friends, Marie Hersey. | | | Scott did poorly in college, but his participation in writing and acting in plays made him popular. |
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| | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| | Babylon Revisited contains many of the motifs of Fitzgerald's most famous stories: a setting among the rich and the aimless; a theme of failed love and longing for a time and a world that cannot be regained; a narrative voice which is urbane, surprising in its imagery, and darkly evocative. | | | A brief guide to Fitzgerald, his creative work, and sources about him. | | | The Fitzgeralds were extravagant beyond their means, partying and drinking into the night and using up all the proceeds from two short-story collections and a second novel, The Beautiful and the Damned (1922). |
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| | F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925) |
| | Fitzgerald followed with The Beautiful and the Damned in 1922, The Great Gatsby in 1925, Tender is the Night (1934), and was working on The Last Tycoon (1941) when he died, in Hollywood, in 1940. | | | Scott Fitzgerald Centenary site (www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/index.html) has many links to follow, including one to a picture of his briefcase, and one to his (sadly all too-often used) flask. | | | Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and educated at Princeton, although he dropped out to join the army before he completed his degree. |
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| | MSN Encarta - F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| | His early short fiction was collected in Flappers and Philosophers (1920) and Tales of the Jazz Age (1922). | | | In 1925 Fitzgerald reached the peak of his powers with what many critics think is his finest work, The Great Gatsby. | | | While at Princeton University, Fitzgerald befriended Edmund Wilson, later an important literary critic, and John Peale Bishop, later a noted poet and novelist. |
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| | American Writers: F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| | To prove himself and win her, he rewrote the novel he had begun at Princeton; in 1920 This Side of Paradise was published and the two were married. | | | Fitzgerald started writing for periodicals, publishing early stories such as "The Diamond as Big as The Ritz," later collected in Tales of The Jazz Age (1922). | | | He told the story of his downward slide in The Crack-Up, published posthumously in 1945. |
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| | F. Scott Fitzgerald biography and links to etext at Owl-Eyes |
| | The Great Gatsby(1925), Fitzgerald's masterpiece, discusses the pursuit and disillusionment with the American Dream. | | | In 1920, Fitzgerald published his first novel, This Side of Paradise. | | | Scott Fitzgerald is now regarded as one the most important American authors of the 20th century. |
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| | Today in History: September 24 |
| | Find, for example, The Irish in America in the collection The Nineteenth Century in Print: Books. | | | Fitzgerald continued to publish novels and stories during the 1920s and 1930s. | | | Fitzgerald achieved fame almost overnight with the 1920 publication of his first novel, This Side of Paradise. |
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| | F. Scott Fitzgerald and the 1920s |
| | Although your discussions will be informal, there should be much dialogue about what you have learned about this era. | | | Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, The Great Gatsby, is thought by many to be the definitive novel of the 1920s. | | | However, the legacy of one of the most fecund periods of American Literature lives on in the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald and others. |
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| | Life |
| | The Lost Generation Bookstore: Fitzgerald, (an amazon.com site to read about and order books by and about Fitzgerald) | | | Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald are buried at St. Mary's Cemetery in Rockville, MD: Visit their gravesite. | | | Zelda: An Illustrated Life: The Private World of Zelda Fitzgerald, edited by Eleanor Lanahan, New York: Abrams, 1996. |
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| | IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection |
| | Authors on Fitzgerald: How others past and present view the man and his works | | | Alcoholism in the Life and Literature of F. Scott Fitzgerald | | | This site contains quotes from other famous authors about F. Scott Fitzgerald. |
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| | Minnesota Author Biographies Project: F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| | Wrote four novels and over one hundred and fifty short stories. | | | The many trials and tribulations of Fitzgerald's life, including the mental breakdowns of his wife, his own alcoholism, and their inability to curb their expensive lifestyles and stay out of debt, provided much of the material for Fitzgerald's writing. | | | Married a week after the publication of his first book to Zelda Sayre, youngest child of an Alabama State Supreme Court judge. |
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| | St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| | Unfortunately, Fitzgerald's dedication to the literary life resulted in his neglecting his studies. | | | Perhaps because so much of his writing is autobiographical, F. Scott Fitzgerald is as famous for his personal life as he is for his writing. | | | It was during his years at Princeton that Fitzgerald first applied himself to the pursuit of a literary life. |
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| | F. Scott Fitzgerald's Gravesite |
| | After his wife, Zelda, died in a sanitarium fire on March 11, 1948, she was buried with him beneath a common headstone. | | | People, places, and experiences in Rockville found their way into his writings. | | | We do know that he returned from Paris to attend his father's funeral at Saint Mary's Church in 1931. |
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| | Tenth Annual - F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Conference |
| | Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night and other classics and short stories, lived and wrote some of his greatest works in Maryland. | | | He, his wife Zelda and their daughter Scottie are buried, with other relatives, at historic Saint Mary’s Church Cemetery in Rockville. | | | Conroy is the New York Times bestselling author of The Lords of Discipline, Beach Music, The Great Santini, The Prince of Tides, The Water is Wide, The Boo, My Losing Season, and The Pat Conroy Cookbook: Recipes of My Life. |
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| | F. Scott Fitzgerald's 100th Birthday |
| | SCOTT FITZGERALD was a man of New York, of Paris, of Hollywood, but his first home is Saint Paul, where he was born on September 24, 1896. | | | His great ambitions began here, his themes, his readiness for romance and, at the crucial moment of his life, the summer of 1919, he came home to become a writer. | | | What I remember is the sheer honor of it and the pleasure of discovering that, if you care about writing, you're not alone, there are others. |
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| | F. Scott Fitzgerald. The early years. |
| | Concerning F. Scott Fitzgerald, photos, literature, famous writers, authors, Great Gatsby, Zelda, F.Scott, Fitsgerald, books, classic, novels, American, classics, playwrites, novelists, rowhouses, the roaring twenties, 20's, short stories, Saturday Evening Post, This Side of Paradise, storytellers, flappers, jazz age, big band era, the Charleston, New Yorker, Scribners, St. Paul, MN, pictures. | | | While living in the far side of these sandstone rowhouses (the large Victorian structure beyond the people carrying the trunk) F. Scott Fitzgerald completed his first novel "This Side of Paradise" in 1919. | | | Since a child his family had socialised with the economic leaders of St. Paul, Minnesota, many of whom lived on fashionable Summit Avenue. |
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| | The F. Scott Fitzgerald Society Home Page |
| | Anyone interested in the work and life of F. Scott Fitzgerald is welcome! | | | The purpose of the society shall be to assist and coordinate F. Scott Fitzgerald studies through (a) the organization of the society's general meetings and other special conferences; (b) the publication of a newsletter; and (c) the support of similar activities approved by the society. | | | All members shall be entitled to attend and vote at the society's general meetings, hold office in the society, and receive The F. Scott Fitzgerald Society Newsletter and The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review, along with any other publications authorized by the Board of Directors. |
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| | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| | "There are no second acts in American lives", said F. Scott Fitzgerald... | | | Scott Fitzgerald and 'The Last of the Belles' (1974) (TV) (short story Last of the Belles) | | | The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954) (story) |
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| | F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes - The Quotations Page |
| | Browse our complete list of 2866 authors by last name: | | | Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure. | | | - Search for F. Scott Fitzgerald at Amazon.com |
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| | F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) |
| | American Storytellers: F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Sensible Thing" (PBS) | | | FLAPPER CULTURE AND STYLE: LOUISE BROOKS AND THE JAZZ AGE |
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