F. Scott Fitzgerald was a novelist and short story writer who wrote mainly of the jazz age. While considered among the best American authors today, F. Scott Fitzgerald was not highly regarded during his life. Fitzgerald was overwhelmed by a miserable marriage, drunkenness, and ruthless critiques. “Fitzgerald’s life is a tragic example of both sides of the American Dream - the joys of young love, wealth and success, and the tragedies associated with excess and failure.” (SC.EDU) Inheriting his name from another famous American, a distant cousin who authored the Star Spangled Banner, F. Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896 in St. Paul Minnesota. Fitzgerald was the son of a failed wicker furniture salesman and an Irish immigrant. At a young age Fitzgerald spoke of a desire to write and began actively writing
Next I will tie in how his personal life affected his topics in his novels. He wrote about the roaring 20’s and is considered the Jazz age historian. It is interesting that Fitzgerald lived his life in the same vain that he criticized in his popular works. I will focus on analyzing his writings in relation to his real life.
In Paris Fitzgerald began work on a book of American authors in Paris. The book was never completed, but it gives one a sense that there must have been a significant amount of authors living in Paris at the time. It is then that he met Earnest Hemingway before he was famous they became drinking buddies. Fitzgerald helped Hemingway by critiquing his work and refereeing him to publishers. It is not clear why these two were not friends though, Hemingway commented after Fitzgerald's death, "What a lovely writer he was withi
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