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F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896, attended Princeton University, and published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. That same year he married Zelda Sayre and the couple divided their time among New York, Paris, and the Riviera, becoming a part of the American expatriate circle that included Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and John Dos Passos. Fitzgerald was a major new literary voice, and his masterpieces include The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender Is the Night. He died of a heart attack in 1940 at the age of forty-four, while working on The Love of the Last Tycoon. For his sharp social insight and... Read full bio

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The movies and me Three years to write a book and three days to turn it into a film script. Money for jam or beginners luck
Philippine Times, June 8, 2013
...one sees what he meant. It is hard to take seriously the anguished complaints of the likes of F Scott FitzGerald and William Faulkner about the way they were treated by the movies...
Sex, drugs and all that jazz: FLAPPERS BY JUDITH MACKRELL
Mail Online UK, June 8, 2013
...they epitomised liberation in all its forms. Judith Mackrell never defines the elusive term, but the great novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald called his wife 'the first American flapper.' Some say the word refers to a young bird flapping its wings before it...
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Newsday, June 7, 2013
...Bird Street Books) 1. PROOF OF HEAVEN, by Eben Alexander (Simon & Schuster) 3. THE GREAT GATSBY, by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Scribner) 4. ZOO, by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge (Grand Central) 5. BEAUTIFUL RUINS, by Jess Walter (Harper Perennial) 6....
Valedictorian's speech brings smiles to Smithsburg's Class of 2013
Herald-Mail Online, June 7, 2013
...have plenty of time.” Shortridge used a quote from the classic novel, “The Great Gatsby,” in which author F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote: “There are no second acts in American lives.” The principal disputed that conclusion, pointing to...
Book Review: "Call Me Zelda" by Erika Robuck
Examiner.com, June 7, 2013
...have portrayed her wild and zany times during the height of the Jazz Age and the height of F. Scott Fitzgerald's popularity. Roebuck's novel is a darker and sadder look at Zelda and the pain she went through after the craziness of the Jazz Age. It is...
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Associated Content, June 7, 2013
...enough to maintain the story's impact. The Great Gatsby (2013) The Great Gatsby is a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man's lavish attempts to win the love of a girl. In this film version we see the darker side of Mr. Gatsby come to the...
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Associated Content, June 7, 2013
...from books. My favorite example of this would have to be "The Great Gatsby". The 1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald is so exquisite and beautifully written that from beginning to end I felt as though I was transported to that time: the era of the Roaring...
The movies and me Three years to write a book and three days to turn it into a film script. Money for jam or beginners luck
Malaysia Sun, June 8, 2013
...one sees what he meant. It is hard to take seriously the anguished complaints of the likes of F Scott FitzGerald and William Faulkner about the way they were treated by the movies. Like so many intellectuals and artists, or would-be intellectuals and...
The movies and me Three years to write a book and three days to turn it into a film script. Money for jam or beginners luck
Argentina Star, June 8, 2013
...one sees what he meant. It is hard to take seriously the anguished complaints of the likes of F Scott FitzGerald and William Faulkner about the way they were treated by the movies. Like so many intellectuals and artists, or would-be intellectuals and...
The movies and me Three years to write a book and three days to turn it into a film script. Money for jam or beginners luck
North Korea Times, June 8, 2013
...one sees what he meant. It is hard to take seriously the anguished complaints of the likes of F Scott FitzGerald and William Faulkner about the way they were treated by the movies...
The movies and me Three years to write a book and three days to turn it into a film script. Money for jam or beginners luck
Cambodian Times, June 8, 2013
...one sees what he meant. It is hard to take seriously the anguished complaints of the likes of F Scott FitzGerald and William Faulkner about the way they were treated by the movies. Like so many intellectuals and artists, or would-be intellectuals and...
The movies and me Three years to write a book and three days to turn it into a film script. Money for jam or beginners luck
Big News Network, June 8, 2013
...one sees what he meant. It is hard to take seriously the anguished complaints of the likes of F Scott FitzGerald and William Faulkner about the way they were treated by the movies. Like so many intellectuals and artists, or would-be intellectuals and...
The movies and me Three years to write a book and three days to turn it into a film script. Money for jam or beginners luck
Philippine Times, June 8, 2013
...one sees what he meant. It is hard to take seriously the anguished complaints of the likes of F Scott FitzGerald and William Faulkner about the way they were treated by the movies...
Why we keep coming back to “The Great Gatsby?: Fantasy aspirations of wealth bear consequences in reality
La Voz Online, June 8, 2013
...Avalos , Staff Writer June 7, 2013 Filed under Opinion The recent release of Baz Luhrmann’s take on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel "," sheds light on the garish extravagance that characterized the Roaring Twenties — the colossal mansions,...