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About F. Scott Fitzgerald

• CHILDHOOD AND EDUCATION
• MILITARY SERVICE, ZELDA SAYRE, AND EARLY SUCCESS
• THE EXPATRIATE EXPERIENCE AND THE GREAT GATSBY
• THE CRASH, TENDER IS THE NIGHT, “THE CRACK-UP”
• HOLLYWOOD, THE LOVE OF THE LAST TYCOON, ENDINGS
• NOTES

Born: 24 September 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota
Died: 21 December 1940 in Hollywood, California
Married: Zelda Sayre, 3 April 1920
Education: Attended Princeton University

CHILDHOOD AND EDUCATION

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (he was a second cousin, three times removed, of the author of “The Star-Spangled Banner”) was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on 24 September 1896. His father, Edward Fitzgerald, a Marylander with sympathies for the Old South, was an unsuccessful...

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1. Introduction
2. About F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. Fitzgerald at Work
4. Fitzgerald’s Eras
5. Fitzgerald’s Works
6. Fitzgerald on Fitzgerald and on Writing
7. Fitzgerald as Studied
8. Study Questions
9. Selected Bibliographical, Biographical, and Critical Studies (Includes Works on Zelda Fitzgerald)
10. Copyright

1. F. Scott Fitzgerald