This bitingly ironic story eerily foretells the fate of the author and his own wife, Zelda-from its giddy romantic beginnings to its alcohol-fueled demise.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota,
and educated at the Newman School and at Princeton. This Side of
Paradise, his first novel, was published in 1920 and transformed
him virtually overnight into a spokesman for his generation and a
prophet of the Jazz Age. That same year, he married Zelda Sayre,
and the two became America’s most celebrated expatriates, dividing
their time among New York, Paris, and the Riviera during the
Twenties. Fitzgerald’s most famous novel, The Great Gatsby, was
published in 1925, and Tender Is the Night in 1934. After Scott and
Zelda were forced by money and health problems to return to the
States, Fitzgerald became a writer for Hollywood movie studios. He
died in 1940 while working on his unfinished novel of Hollywood,
The Last Tycoon. His other works include Flappers and Philosophers
(1920), The Beautiful and Damned (1922), Tales of the Jazz Age
(1922), All the Sad Young Men (1926), and Taps at Reveille
(1935).
Ruth Prigozy is Professor of English and Film Studies at
Hofstra University. She is Executive Director of the F. Scott
Fitzgerald Society, which she co-founded in 1990. She has published
widely on F. Scott Fitzgerald as well as on Ernest Hemingway, J.D.
Salinger, the Hollywood Ten, and film directors Billy Wilder, D.W.
Griffith, and Vittorio de Sica. She has edited Fitzgerald’s This
Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, and The Cambridge Companion to
F. Scott Fitzgerald. She is the author of F. Scott Fitzgerald: An
Illustrated Life. She has co-edited two volumes on detective
fiction and film, one on the short story, and two collections of
essays on Fitzgerald.
“Full of precisely observed life.” —Arthur Mizener
"Full of precisely observed life." -Arthur Mizener
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