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A recurrent theme in F. Scott Fitzgerald's fiction is the psychic and moral gulf between the average American and wealthy elites. [362] [363] This recurrent theme is ascribable to Fitzgerald's life experiences in which he was "a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton."
The Far Side of Paradise: A Biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald is a biography of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald written by Arthur Mizener. [1] Published in 1951 by Houghton Mifflin, it was the first published biography of Fitzgerald and is credited with renewing public interest in its subject.
Frances Scott "Scottie" Fitzgerald (October 26, 1921 – June 18, 1986) was an American writer and journalist and the only child of novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald. She matriculated from Vassar College and worked for The Washington Post , The New Yorker , and other publications. [ 1 ]
The Beautiful and Damned is a 1922 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. [1] Set in New York City, the novel's plot follows a young artist Anthony Patch and his flapper wife Gloria Gilbert who become "wrecked on the shoals of dissipation" while partying to excess at the dawn of the hedonistic Jazz Age.
Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (August 21, 1931 – June 4, 2008) [1] [2] was an American professor of English at the University of South Carolina.He was an expert on F. Scott Fitzgerald; his biography of Fitzgerald, published in 1981, was considered the standard biography for decades.
If a work of inspiring fiction is required, the utopians might consider F. Scott Fitzgerald’s story, “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz,” in which a Southern slave owner moves, Galt-like, to an uncharted valley in remotest Montana, convincing his human property that the Confederacy won the Civil War and thus, through a clever falsification ...
College of One: The Story of How F. Scott Fitzgerald Educated the Woman He Loved (1967) Confessions of a Hollywood Columnist (1969) Garden of Allah (Crown, 1969) [17] A State of Heat (1972, memoir) How to Marry Super Rich: Or, Love, Money and the Morning After (1974) For Richer, for Poorer (1975) The Real F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thirty-Five Years ...
The Crack-Up is a 1945 posthumous collection of essays by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald.It includes three essays Fitzgerald originally wrote for Esquire which were first published in 1936, including the title essay, along with previously unpublished letters and notes.