There, he firmly dedicated himself to honing his craft as a writer. With the help of relatives, he studied at Princeton University. Bruccoli in The Price Was High (1979).īorn in 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, to an upper-middle-class family, Fitzgerald was a distant relative of Francis Scott Key, who wrote the poem that became the basis for the American national anthem. Four collections of his short stories were published, as well as 164 short stories in magazines during his lifetime, and fifty more uncollected stories were published by Fitzgerald scholar Matthew J.
He finished four novels: This Side of Paradise (1920), The Beautiful and Damned (1922), The Great Gatsby (1925), and Tender Is the Night (1934). A fifth, unfinished novel, The Last Tycoon, was published posthumously in 1941. A notable member of the “Lost Generation” of the 1920s, Fitzgerald is now widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century.
While he achieved popular success, fame, and fortune in his lifetime, he did not receive much critical acclaim until after his death. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)įrancis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896–greeDecember 21, 1940) was an American fiction writer whose works helped to illustrate the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age. Feature Unit: The Sonnets of William Shakespeare (1564–1616).Feature Poet: Emily Dickinson (1830–1886).Feature Unit: The Poetry of World War I.Feature Unit: The Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance.25. An Anthology of Poems for Further Study
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