Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Fitzgerald, F. Scott Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald ( 1896 – 1940 ),American novelist and short story writer, born in Minnesota and educated at Princeton, where, as a friend and contemporary of E. Wilson , he aimed for stardom in the social, athletic, and literary fields. His first novel, This Side of Paradise ( 1920 ), made him instantly famous; shortly after its publication he married the glamorous Zelda Sayre , and together they embarked on a life of high living, big spending, and party-going, fortified by a view of themselves as representative figures of the ‘Jazz Age’. He published stories in fashionable periodicals such as the Saturday Evening Post, Vanity Fair, and the Smart Set, in which he chronicled the mood and manners of the times; these were collected as Flappers and Philosophers ( 1920 ) and Tales of the Jazz Age ( 1922 ), the latter including his child's-eye fantasy...
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