F. Scott Fitzgerald (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Howard Greenfeld
- First Published: 1974
- Time of Work: 1896–1940
- Setting: Alabama, California, Delaware, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Cuba, England, France, and Italy
- Principal Characters: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, Father Sigourney Fay, John Peale Bishop, Harold Ober, Maxwell Perkins, Sara, Sheilah Graham
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Authors or writers, Literature, Marriage, Alcoholism or alcoholics, Substance abuse, Novelists, Creative process, Fame, Biography
- Locales: California, France, New York, England, Louisiana, North Carolina, Alabama, Maryland, Kansas, Cuba, Italy, New Jersey, Minnesota, Delaware
Form and Content
The subject of Howard Greenfeld’s excellent biography F. Scott Fitzgerald is one of the United States’ most celebrated twentieth century writers. The third child of Edward Fitzgerald and Mary McQuillan, and the only one to survive infancy, Fitzgerald spent his brief life precariously poised between opulence and destitution and between devotion to his craft and drunken dissoluteness. In the meantime, his travels took him to virtually every major region of the United States, as well as to England, Italy, and, most significantly, France. These general...
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