Bernice Bobs Her Hair F Scott Fitzgerald

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Paul, Minnesota, on September 24, He was educated at Princeton University and served in the U. Army from toattaining the rank of second lieutenant. In Fitzgerald married Zelda Sayre, a young woman of the upper class, and they had a daughter, Frances.

Fitzgerald is regarded as one of the finest American writers of the 20th Century. His most notable work was the novel, The Great Gatsby The novel focused on the themes of the Roaring Twenties and of the loss of innocence and ethics among the nouveau riche.

He also made many contributions to American literature in the form of short stories, plays, poetry, music, and letters. Ernest Hemingway, who was greatly influenced by Fitzgerald's short stories, wrote that Fitzgerald's talent was "as fine as the dust on a butterfly's wing. There he contributed to scripts for such popular films as Winter Carnival and Gone with the Wind.

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Fitzgerald's work is inseparable from the Roaring 20s. His first novel The Beautiful and Damned was flawed but set up Fitzgerald's major themes of the fleeting nature of youthfulness and innocence, unattainable love, and middle-class aspiration for wealth and respectability, derived from his own courtship of Zelda. This Side of Paradise was Fitzgerald's first unqualified success.

Tender Is the Night, a mature look at the excesses of the exuberant 20s, was published in The Last Tycoon, adapted by Paramount inwas a work in progress when Fitzgerald died of a heart attack on December 21,in Hollywood, California. Fitzgerald is buried in the historic St. Mary's Cemetery in Rockville, Maryland. Bibliografische gegevens.]