F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in St Paul, Minnesota, and
went to Princeton University, which he left in 1917 to join the
army. He was said to have epitomized the Jazz Age, which he himself
defined as 'a generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars
fought, all faiths in man shaken'. In 1920 he married Zelda Sayre.
Their traumatic marriage and her subsequent breakdowns became the
leading influence on his writing. Among his publications were five
novels, This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and
the Damned, Tender is the Night and The Last Tycoon (his last and
unfinished work); six volumes of short stories and The Crack Up, a
selection of autobiographical pieces.
Fitzgerald died suddenly in 1940. After his death The New York
Times said of him that 'He was better than he knew, for in fact and
in the literary sense he invented a 'generation'. . . he might have
interpreted and even guided them, as in their midle years they saw
a different and nobler freedom threatened with destruction.'
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