f. scott fitzgerald

     

"I had no idea of originating an American flapper... I simply took girls whom I knew very well" & "used them for my heroines"

Trivia about f. scott fitzgerald

  • In 1940 at age 44 he died of a heart attack at his Hollywood home while reading his Princeton Alumni Weekly
  • The small green light on this writer's stamp represents a symbol he used in "The Great Gatsby"
  • Shortly after arriving in France in 1924, he completed "The Great Gatsby"
  • He wrote amateur musical comedies at Princeton about 10 years before "The Great Gatsby"
  • After Zelda broke their engagement, he went on a bender, then to St. Paul to rewrite a novel he'd begun at Princeton
  • The Jazz Age's Scott
  • The success of his first novel, "This Side of Paradise", allowed him to marry Zelda
  • Saul Bellow said this "Jazz Age" author "couldn't distinguish between innocence and social climbing"
  • In 1932 his wife Zelda published the novel "Save Me the Waltz", her version of their life together
  • This St. Paul-born author is credited with coining the term "Jazz Age"
  • Budd Schulberg based the alcoholic central character of "The Disenchanted" on this "Gatsby" author
  • "This Side of Paradise"
  • He's the bright light of '20s lit, seen here
  • The Villa Diana in his novel "Tender Is The Night" was based on the French Riviera home of his friend Gerald Murphy
  • His emotionally unstable wife Zelda inspired the character of Nicole Diver in his book "Tender Is The Night"
  • In "Gatsby's Girl" Caroline Preston fictionalized the romance of Ginevra King & this writer during his Princeton days
  • His "The Last Tycoon" was published posthumously in 1941
  • The beautiful Daisy Buchanan, Nick Carraway's cousin
  • Early collections of his stories include "Flappers And Philosophers" & "Tales Of The Jazz Age"
  • Item 6 in his will:"I give... unto my wife, Zelda... in the event she regain her sanity all of my household and kitchen furniture"
  • (Cheryl of the Clue Crew at the Plaza Hotel in New York City) This man's second novel, 1922's "The Beautiful and Damned", features scenes in the Plaza's Grill Room
  • Keir Dullea played this Jazz Age author in a one-man show called "The Other Side of Paradise"
  • In the 1920s this author's wife Zelda was famous for jumping into the fountain in front of the Plaza Hotel
  • His wife Zelda was in a sanitarium when he took up with gossip columnist Sheilah Graham
  • Great-grand nephew of Francis Scott Key, he was the voice of the Jazz Age
  • Amory Blaine, a handsome, spoiled Princeton student, was the hero of this man's first novel, "This Side of Paradise"
  • His 2 middle names were Scott & Key
  • The life of Amory Blaine, part of the Lost Generation, is covered in his "This Side of Paradise"
  • One of Tennessee's last plays, "Clothes for A Summer Hotel", was about this Jazz Age author & his wife
  • In 1919 The Smart Set ran his first paid story, "Babes in the Woods"; in 1922, the classic "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz"
  • Scottie, daughter of this author, grew up to be a journalist & Washington socialite
  • He dedicated "The Beautiful and Damned" to Shane, Leslie, George, Nathan & Maxwell Perkins for their literary help
  • "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past" -- The Great Gatsby
  • Jackson Browne got the title "Tender is the Night" from this author
  • Zelda Sayre broke her engagement with him (a broke adman) in 1919, but married him (now a successful novelist) in 1920
  • Pieces he scribbled for magazines like Scribner's were collected in his "Flappers and Philosophers"
  • "Against the Current" & "Far Side of Paradise"
  • This "Tender is the Night" author was one of the many writers who had a crack at the script for "Gone with the Wind"
  • This author, not Gary Larson, is the subject of "The Far Side of Paradise"
  • English:Learn that he left Princeton without a degree in 1917 & 8 years later penned "The Great Gatsby"
  • Much of "The Beautiful and Damned", his 1922 novel about a self-destructive couple, now seems autobiographical
  • Sheilah Graham got material for 3 memoirs for her affair with this author
  • He published "Flappers and Philosophers", his first book of short stories, in 1920, the year he married Zelda