Fitzgerald, F. Scott (1896-1940)
Perhaps because so much of his writing is autobiographical, F. Scott Fitzgerald is as famous for his personal life as he is for his writing. In his career as a writer,...
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Excerpt from The Great GatsbyPublished in 1925
Although F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) is now considered one of the most important figures in twentieth-century American li...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Born September 24, 1896 (St. Paul, Minnesota)Died December 21, 1940 (Los Angeles, California)
Novelist and short story writer
F. Scott Fitzgerald was probably the most gifted and i...
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Biography EssayF. Scott Fitzgerald was a writer very much of his own time. As Malcolm Cowley once put it, he lived in a room full of clocks and calendars. The years ticked away while he noted the song...
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The American author Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896-1940), a legendary figure of the 1920s, was a scrupulous artist, a graceful stylist, and an exceptional craftsman. His tragic life was an ironic ...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald died on the afternoon of December 21, 1940, suffering a fatal heart attack as he was finishing a chocolate bar--one of his placebos for the alcohol that had ravaged both his talent...
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An air of transience pervades the biographies of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald and slips into their writing. This lack of permanence is a key to understanding their relationship with ...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald was a writer very much of his own time. As Malcolm Cowley once put it, he lived in a room full of clocks and calendars. The years ticked away while he noted the songs, the shows, ...
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Although for the general reader F. Scott Fitzgerald 's fame rests primarily on one novel, The Great Gatsby (1925), his creative life, from youth to early death, found full expression in some 160 shor...
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In the following essay, Varet-Ali praises the originality of The Pat Hobby Stories and considers their place within Fitzgerald's oeuvre.
I'm awfully tired of being Scott Fitzgerald anyho...
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In the following essay, Bruccoli enumerates the reasons for the popularity of Fitzgerald's early short stories.
The proper assessment of F. Scott Fitzgerald's short-story achievements ha...
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In the following essay, Mangum traces the relationship between Fitzgerald's early short stories and his novels, asserting that he used the shorter pieces as a “workshop for subjects, the...
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In the following essay, Goren examines the theme of the tension between the United States and Europe in “The Swimmers.”
Of his short story “The Swimmers,” F. Scott Fitzgera...
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In the following essay, Balkun views the theme of emotional bankruptcy as central to Fitzgerald's Josephine stories.
It has long been a given that the idea of emotional bankruptcy is one of F. ...
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In the following essay, Drushell investigates the role of earth, air, fire, and water in “The Ice Palace.”
In “The Ice Palace,” F. Scott Fitzgerald's interest in the...
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In the following essay, Mangum explores the relationship between Fitzgerald's novels and short stories and discusses the reputation of his short stories as inferior fiction written only for fin...
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In the following excerpt, Bucker provides a brief overview of Fitzgerald's career as short story writer for commercial magazines.
On February 21, 1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald entered the commercia...
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In the following essay, Prigozy asserts that “The Rubber Check” is one of Fitzgerald's most complex and important stories.
Five years have rolled away from me and I can't d...
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In the following essay, Hays argues that the four Count of Darkness stories—“The Kingdom in the Dark,” “In the Darkest Hour,” “The Count of Darkness,” ...
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In the following essay, Gale identifies the source for Josephine Perry's nickname in “A Snobbish Story,”
In F. Scott Fitzgerald's “A Snobbish Story” (1930), t...
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In the following essay, Jolliff investigates the influence of Harold Frederic's The Damnation of Theron Ware on Fitzgerald's “Dalyrimple Goes Wrong.”
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In the following essay, Lupack chronicles the inclusion of Arthurian motifs, the wasteland, and the Grail quest in many of F. Scott Fitzgerald's works, remarking that the author's intere...
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The 1920s marked a new time in American called the "Jazz Age." One of the most famous writers of this period was F. Scott Fitzgerald who was known for his novels and short stories that all seemed t...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald uses similar themes and symbolism in his short stories and books. Relationships between men and women encircle the stories, creating illusions of love. The characters in The Gre...
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A woman letting a man know that he needs to be wealthy in order for their relationship to work is not only harsh but in fact preposterous. Having a wealthy man to live the rest of their lives with was...
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F.SCOTT FITZGERALD
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. His father, Edward, was an aristocrat and his mother, Mary (Mollie) McQuillan, hailed from wo...
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Fitzgerald, F. Scott (1896-1940)
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
F . Scott Fitzgerald
F(rancis) Scott (Key) Fitzgerald
