The Great Gatsby | Author Biography
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F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American novelist and short-story writer of the Roaring Twenties. Since his early work shows a romantic feeling for "the promises of life" at college and in "The East," he acquired the epithet "the spokesman of the Jazz Age." His first novel. This Side of Paradise, was the first American novel to deal with college undergraduate life in the World Wai- I era. A handsome and charming man, Fitzgerald was quickly adopted...
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