{"id":123,"date":"2015-07-08T20:05:17","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T20:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.candelalearning.com\/americanlit2x22x1\/?post_type=chapter&p=123"},"modified":"2015-07-08T20:05:46","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T20:05:46","slug":"biography-f-scott-fitzgerald","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-americanlit2\/chapter\/biography-f-scott-fitzgerald\/","title":{"raw":"Biography: F. Scott Fitzgerald","rendered":"Biography: F. Scott Fitzgerald"},"content":{"raw":"Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald<\/b> (September 24, 1896\u00a0\u2013 December 21, 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.\u00a0<\/span>Fitzgerald is considered a member of the \"Lost Generation\" of the 1920s. He finished four novels: This Side of Paradise<\/i>, The Beautiful and Damned<\/i>, The Great Gatsby<\/i> (his best known), and Tender Is the Night<\/i>. A fifth, unfinished novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon<\/i>, was published posthumously. Fitzgerald also wrote many short stories that treat themes of youth and promise along with age and despair.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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Born<\/th>\r\nFrancis Scott Key Fitzgerald\r\nSeptember 24, 1896\r\nSt. Paul, Minnesota, United States<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Died<\/th>\r\nDecember 21, 1940 (aged\u00a044)\r\nHollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Resting place<\/th>\r\nSaint Mary's Cemetery<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Occupation<\/th>\r\nNovelist, short story writer, poet<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Nationality<\/th>\r\nAmerican<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Period<\/th>\r\n1920\u201340<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Notable works<\/th>\r\nThe Great Gatsby<\/i><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Spouse<\/th>\r\nZelda Sayre (m.<\/abbr>\u00a01920\u201340)<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Children<\/th>\r\nFrances Scott Fitzgerald<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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Legacy<\/h2>\r\nFitzgerald's work has inspired writers ever since he was first published. The publication of The Great Gatsby\u00a0<\/i>prompted T. S. Eliot to write, in a letter to Fitzgerald, \"[I]t seems to me to be the first step that American fiction has taken since Henry James\u00a0...\".\u00a0Don Birnam, the protagonist of Charles Jackson's The Lost Weekend<\/i>, says to himself, referring to The Great Gatsby<\/i>, \"There's no such thing\u00a0... as a flawless novel. But if there is, this is it.\"\u00a0In letters written in the 1940s, J. D. Salinger expressed admiration of Fitzgerald's work, and his biographer Ian Hamilton\u00a0wrote that Salinger even saw himself for some time as \"Fitzgerald's successor.\"\u00a0\u00a0Richard Yates, a writer often compared to Fitzgerald, called The Great Gatsby<\/i> \"the most nourishing novel [he] read\u00a0... a miracle of talent\u00a0... a triumph of technique.\"\u00a0It was written in a New York Times<\/i> editorial after his death that Fitzgerald \"was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a generation\u00a0... He might have interpreted them and even guided them, as in their middle years they saw a different and nobler freedom threatened with destruction.\"\r\n\r\nInto the 21st century, millions of copies of The Great Gatsby<\/i> and his other works have been sold, and Gatsby,<\/i> a constant best-seller, is required reading in many high school and college classes.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nView F. Scott Fitzgerald's\u00a0full biography on Wikipedia.<\/a>\r\n\r\n ","rendered":"

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald<\/b> (September 24, 1896\u00a0\u2013 December 21, 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.\u00a0<\/span>Fitzgerald is considered a member of the “Lost Generation” of the 1920s. He finished four novels: This Side of Paradise<\/i>, The Beautiful and Damned<\/i>, The Great Gatsby<\/i> (his best known), and Tender Is the Night<\/i>. A fifth, unfinished novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon<\/i>, was published posthumously. Fitzgerald also wrote many short stories that treat themes of youth and promise along with age and despair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Photograph of F. Scott Fitzgerald c. 1921, appearing in “The World’s Work” (June 1921 issue)<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Born<\/th>\nFrancis Scott Key Fitzgerald
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\nSt. Paul, Minnesota, United States<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Died<\/th>\nDecember 21, 1940 (aged\u00a044)
\nHollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Resting place<\/th>\nSaint Mary’s Cemetery<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Occupation<\/th>\nNovelist, short story writer, poet<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nationality<\/th>\nAmerican<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Period<\/th>\n1920\u201340<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Notable works<\/th>\nThe Great Gatsby<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Spouse<\/th>\nZelda Sayre (m.<\/abbr>\u00a01920\u201340)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Children<\/th>\nFrances Scott Fitzgerald<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Legacy<\/h2>\n

Fitzgerald’s work has inspired writers ever since he was first published. The publication of The Great Gatsby\u00a0<\/i>prompted T. S. Eliot to write, in a letter to Fitzgerald, “[I]t seems to me to be the first step that American fiction has taken since Henry James\u00a0…”.\u00a0Don Birnam, the protagonist of Charles Jackson’s The Lost Weekend<\/i>, says to himself, referring to The Great Gatsby<\/i>, “There’s no such thing\u00a0… as a flawless novel. But if there is, this is it.”\u00a0In letters written in the 1940s, J. D. Salinger expressed admiration of Fitzgerald’s work, and his biographer Ian Hamilton\u00a0wrote that Salinger even saw himself for some time as “Fitzgerald’s successor.”\u00a0\u00a0Richard Yates, a writer often compared to Fitzgerald, called The Great Gatsby<\/i> “the most nourishing novel [he] read\u00a0… a miracle of talent\u00a0… a triumph of technique.”\u00a0It was written in a New York Times<\/i> editorial after his death that Fitzgerald “was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a generation\u00a0… He might have interpreted them and even guided them, as in their middle years they saw a different and nobler freedom threatened with destruction.”<\/p>\n

Into the 21st century, millions of copies of The Great Gatsby<\/i> and his other works have been sold, and Gatsby,<\/i> a constant best-seller, is required reading in many high school and college classes.<\/p>\n

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View F. Scott Fitzgerald’s\u00a0full biography on Wikipedia.<\/a><\/p>\n

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