F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
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F(rancis) Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on September 24, 1896. He was educated at Princeton University and served in the U.S. Army from 1917 to 1919, attaining the rank of second lieutenant. In 1920 Fitzgerald married Zelda Sayre, a young woman of the upper class, and they had a vis mere 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 (1925). 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." Yet during his lifetime Fitzgerald never had a bestselling novel and, toward the end of his life, he worked sporadically as a screenwriter at motion picture studios in Los Angeles. There he contributed to scripts for such popular films as Winter Carnival and Gone with the Wind. Fitzgerald's work is inseparable from the Roaring 20s. Berenice Bobs Her Hair and A Diamond As Big As The Ritz, are two short stories included in his collections, Tales of the Jazz Age and Flappers and Philosophers. 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 (1920) was Fitzgerald's first unqualified success. Tender Is the Night, a mature look at the excesses of the exuberant 20s, was published in 1934. Much of Fitzgerald's work has been adapted for film, including Tender is the Night , The Great Gatsby, and Babylon Revisited which was adapted as The Last Time I Saw Paris by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1954. The Last Tycoon, adapted by Paramount in 1976, was a work in progress when Fitzgerald died of a heart attack on December 21, 1940, in Hollywood, California. Fitzgerald is buried in the historic St. Mary's Cemetery in Rockville, Maryland. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Novels and Stories 1920-1922: This Side of Paradise / Flappers and Philosophers / The Beautiful and the Damned / Tales… (2000) 428 eksemplarer
The curious case of Benjamin Button, and six other stories (Penguin Modern Classics) (2008) 178 eksemplarer
F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Life in Letters: A New Collection Edited and Annotated by Matthew J. Bruccoli (1994) 122 eksemplarer
Collected Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading): Flappers and Philosophers and… (2007) 117 eksemplarer
Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby' (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald) (2000) 117 eksemplarer
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Tales of the Jazz Age {4 stories} (2008) 106 eksemplarer
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby, All the Sad Young Men & Other Writings 1920–26 (LOA #353) (Library of… (2022) 94 eksemplarer
This Side of Paradise and Other Classic Works (Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection) (2013) 86 eksemplarer
Tender Is the Night / This Side of Paradise / The Great Gatsby / The Last Tycoon (1948) — Forfatter — 61 eksemplarer
The Great Gatsby and Other Classic Works (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions) (2021) 61 eksemplarer
The Great Gatsby / Tender is the Night / This Side of Paradise / The Beautiful and the Damned / The Last Tycoon (1977) 60 eksemplarer
L'étrange histoire de Benjamin Button : Suivie de Un diamant gros comme le Ritz (2009) 50 eksemplarer
Curious Case of Benjamin Button & Other Stories (Penguin Active Reading (Graded Readers)) (2011) 30 eksemplarer
The Thoughtbook of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Secret Boyhood Diary (Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage) (1965) 28 eksemplarer
The Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: 21 Novels and Short Stories (Halcyon Classics) (2009) 23 eksemplarer
F. Scott Fitzgerald Four Pack - Benjamin Button, This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Diamond as big as… (2014) 17 eksemplarer
Il diamante grosso come il Ritz - Tarquinio di Cheapside 14 eksemplarer
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and Other Stories [adapted - Longman Structural Readers] (1974) 13 eksemplarer
As ever, Scott Fitz--;: Letters between F. Scott Fitzgerald and his literary agent Harold Ober, 1919-1940 (1972) 12 eksemplarer
Cuentos. Volumen 2 (The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald) (Spanish Edition) (1998) 11 eksemplarer
Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940 (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald) (v. 4) (2005) 10 eksemplarer
I grandi romanzi e i racconti: Al di qua del paradiso-Belli e dannati-Il grande Gatsby-Tenera è la notte-Racconti… (2011) 9 eksemplarer
Absolution, Le Premier Mai (May Day), Retour a Babylone (Babylon Revisited) (French Edition) (1972) 8 eksemplarer
Crack Up - With Other Uncollected Pieces, Note-books & Unpublished Letters, Together With Letters From Gertrude Stein.. (1956) 7 eksemplarer
F. Scott Fitzgerald and 'The Last of the Belles' [1974 TV movie] (1974) — Original book — 7 eksemplarer
F. Scott Fitzgerald Collection: The Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and Damned and Tender is the Night (Collins Classics) (2009) 6 eksemplarer
Penguin Readers Level 5: "the Baby Party" and Other Stories: Book and Audio Cassette (Penguin Readers Simplified Text) (1995) 6 eksemplarer
The Great Gatsby, the Stories, the Last Tycoon, This Side of Paradise, Tender is the Night (1953) 6 eksemplarer
Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald 6 eksemplarer
The Classic F. Scott Fitzgerald Collection: 5-Volume box set edition (Arcturus Classic Collections, 4) (2021) 5 eksemplarer
Crazy Sunday 5 eksemplarer
Gods of Darkness 5 eksemplarer
The Best Short Stories of All Time - Volume 1 5 eksemplarer
Reading & Training : F. Scott Fitzgerald : The great Gatsby [book + sound recording] (2008) — Writer — 4 eksemplarer
The Great Gatsby and Related Stories [Deckle Edge Paper]: The Library of America Corrected Text (2023) 4 eksemplarer
Des livres et une Rolls : préface de Charles Dantzig (Les Cahiers Rouges) (2013) — Forfatter — 4 eksemplarer
Seis contos da Era do Jazz e outras histórias 4 eksemplarer
TRÊS HORAS ENTRE DOIS AVIÕES 4 eksemplarer
Troppo Carina Per Dirlo A Parole (Italian Edition) Piccoli Classici Paperback (Too cute for words and tell other… (1994) 3 eksemplarer
Belos e Malditos 3 eksemplarer
1) This Side Of Paradise and 2) Babylon Revisited And Other Stories (2 Volumes) by F. Scott Fitzgerald - Scribners Pub. 3 eksemplarer
The I.O.U. 3 eksemplarer
This Side of Paradise / The Last Tycoon — Forfatter — 3 eksemplarer
Spires and Gargoyles: Early Writings, 1909-1919 (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald) (2010) 3 eksemplarer
Great Interviews of the 20th Century: F Scott Fitzgerald by Michel Mok (2007) — Bidragyder — 3 eksemplarer
Benjamin Button / This Side of Paradise / The Beautiful and Damned / The Diamond as big as The Ritz 3 eksemplarer
Novels 3 eksemplarer
Il curioso caso di Benjamin Button The curious case of Benjamin Button. Ediz. bilingue integrale. Con Segnalibro (2020) 3 eksemplarer
A Night At The Fair 3 eksemplarer
Estranhos Embora Íntimos e Outros Contos Inéditos — Forfatter — 3 eksemplarer
F. Scott Fitzgerald Collection, 45 Works: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, Flappers and Philosphers,… (2013) 3 eksemplarer
Reading & Training : F. Scott Fitzgerald : The diamond as big as the Ritz [book + sound recording] (2008) — Writer — 2 eksemplarer
Rare F Scott Fitzgerald / FRANKLIN LIBRARY THE STORIES OF F SCOTT Limited 1st ed 1977 (1977) 2 eksemplarer
Fie Fie Fi-Fi: A Facsimile of the 1914 Musical Score, With Illustrations from the Original (1996) 2 eksemplarer
Safety First; a Musical Comedy in Two Acts 2 eksemplarer
Cuentos 2 eksemplarer
Manhattan, Baltimore, Paris (Erzalungen Aus Den Zwanziger Und Dreissiger jahren) (1993) 2 eksemplarer
The Great Gatsby. Collector's Edition in Full Leather Introduction by Charles Scribner III 2 eksemplarer
Mal Por Mal e Outros Contos 2 eksemplarer
PLAZERAREN GAU ILUNEKOAK 2 eksemplarer
Il palazzo di ghiaccio (in Maschiette e filosofi) 2 eksemplarer
38 racconti (racconti) 2 eksemplarer
The F. Scott Fitzgerald Collection Volume One: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, Flappers and… (2020) 2 eksemplarer
The Ultimate Christmas Collection: 150+ authors & 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends 2 eksemplarer
A este lado del paraíso ; El gran Gatsby ; [traducción, A este lado del paraíso, Juan Benet Goitia… (1979) — Forfatter — 2 eksemplarer
Financiando a Finnegan 2 eksemplarer
THE CRACK-UP E OUTROS ESCRITOS 2 eksemplarer
The Basil, Josephine, and Gwen Stories (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald) (2009) 2 eksemplarer
The Last Tycoon and unfinished novel..together with The Great Gatsby and selected stories 2 eksemplarer
Noveller 2 eksemplarer
The Great Gatsby This Side of Paradise Tender Is the Night Tales of the Jazz Age Babylon Revisited The Last Tycoon The… (1991) 2 eksemplarer
The Baby Party {short story} 2 eksemplarer
The Crack-Up & other stories 2 eksemplarer
The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night, This Side of Paradise, The Stories : 4 Volume Set (1969) 2 eksemplarer
Assoluzione (in 38 racconti) 1 eksemplar
La testa e le spalle (in Maschiette e filosofi) 1 eksemplar
Gli investigaori di scandali (in 38 racconti) 1 eksemplar
Il vaso di cristallo (in Maschiette e filosofi) 1 eksemplar
Quei quattro pugni (in Maschiette e filosofi) 1 eksemplar
Due torti (in 38 racconti) 1 eksemplar
Z tej strony raju 1 eksemplar
La cosa sensata (in 38 racconti) 1 eksemplar
La festa nuziale (in 38 racconti) 1 eksemplar
Traversata tempestosa (in 38 racconti) 1 eksemplar
L'ultima bella (in 38 racconti) 1 eksemplar
Ventotto racconti 1 eksemplar
Il giovanotto ricco (in 38 racconti) 1 eksemplar
Sogni invernali (in 38 racconti) 1 eksemplar
Takový Pěkný Par 1 eksemplar
Festa da ballo 1 eksemplar
Niño Bien 1 eksemplar
Winter Dreams - Sogni dìinverno 1 eksemplar
Francis Scott Fitzgerald: Romanzi 1 eksemplar
Contes de l'âge du jazz (French Edition) 1 eksemplar
Absolution, Le Premier Mai. Retour à Babylone 1 eksemplar
Létà del jazz 1 eksemplar
Mas Aca del Paraíso 1 eksemplar
kaunis ja kadotukseen tuomittu 1 eksemplar
Собрание сочинений в трех томах 1 eksemplar
Book B0BTK6G5SV 1 eksemplar
Racconti dispersi vol. II 1 eksemplar
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 1 eksemplar
L'ombra catturata (in 38 racconti) 1 eksemplar
"Une centaine de Faux départs" 1 eksemplar
The Great Gatsby - Il grande Gatsby 1 eksemplar
Il più presuntuoso (in 38 racconti) 1 eksemplar
La lunga via d'uscita (in 38 racconti) 1 eksemplar
La donna con un passato (in 38 racconti) 1 eksemplar
I Capolavori Di Francis Scott Fitzgerald. Di qua dal paradiso. Il grande Gatsby. Tenera e la notte. 1 eksemplar
Historia de Pat Hobby 1 eksemplar
Popołudniu pisarza i inne opowiadania 1 eksemplar
Cuentos de Scott Fitzerald 1 eksemplar
gli ultimi fuochi 1 eksemplar
Tenera è la notte 1 eksemplar
La longue fuite 1 eksemplar
Francis Scott Fitzgerald - La Festa dei bambini | Mary Wilkins Freeman - Il vento nel cespuglio di rose — Forfatter — 1 eksemplar
Folle domenica (in 38 racconti) 1 eksemplar
Famiglia nel vento (in 38 racconti) 1 eksemplar
Un caso di alcoolismo (in 38 racconti) 1 eksemplar
Un cortometraggio patriottico (in 38 racconti) 1 eksemplar
Due pionieri (in 38 racconti) 1 eksemplar
GETSBI I MADH 1 eksemplar
Il decennio perduto (in 38 racconti) 1 eksemplar
28 Racconti (Vol.1) 1 eksemplar
La tarde de un escritor 1 eksemplar
Velský Garsby 1 eksemplar
Entre trois et quatre 1 eksemplar
The Last Tycoon 1 eksemplar
The Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald 1 eksemplar
BLINDETEA NOPTII 1 eksemplar
Marele Gatsby Carte Pentru Toti 1 eksemplar
1: Diamond Dick e la prima legge della donna 1 eksemplar
Emotional Bankruptcy 1 eksemplar
Set of Three Books/ This Side of Paradise, the Great Gatsby, the Last Tycoon, By F. Scott Fitzgerald (1948) 1 eksemplar
PLAR3:The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Multi Rom For Pack (Penguin Active Reading (Graded Readers)) (2011) 1 eksemplar
The Hungry Ocean 1 eksemplar
Издержки хорошего воспитания 1 eksemplar
EinFach Englisch Textausgaben - Textausgaben für die Schulpraxis: The Great Gatsby (2011) 1 eksemplar
The Premium Major Collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Annotated): (Collection Includes The Beautiful and Damned, The… (2017) 1 eksemplar
Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, The 1 eksemplar
The Stories of Fitzgerald 1 eksemplar
The Great Gatsby - An Introduction 1 eksemplar
F. Scott Fitzgerald Papers 1 eksemplar
The Genius Of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Flappers And Philosophers ( 8 Short Stories) (Volume 1) (2009) 1 eksemplar
The Collected Stories of F.Scott Fitzgerald 1 eksemplar
this side Of Paradise....Well this side of paradise!... There's little Comfort in the wise Rupert Brooke. 1 eksemplar
The Great Gatsby : with additional materials 1 eksemplar
“Published juvenilia of F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1909-1917. Written between the ages of eleven and twenty-one.” 1 eksemplar
The Dial, Vol. 1. — owner — 1 eksemplar
Antologia Minima de Francis Scott Fitzgerald 1 eksemplar
The Complete Short Stories and Essays, Volume 2 1 eksemplar
Somnis d'hivern ; també: La Bernice es talla els cabells = Winter dreams ; also: Bernice bobs her hair (2013) 1 eksemplar
Três Horas Entre Dois Aviões e outros contos 1 eksemplar
Borrowed time; short stories 1 eksemplar
Short Novels of Fitzgerald - 菲茨杰拉尔德小说选 1 eksemplar
Una storia scandalosa. Racconto 1 eksemplar
Works of Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald. Incl: The Beautiful and Damned, This Side of Paradise, Tales of the Jazz Age,… (2009) 1 eksemplar
Best Jazz Age Stories 1 eksemplar
Fragments de paradis : Love Boat et 63 autres nouvelles suivies de Tendre est la nuit (2011) 1 eksemplar
Babylon Revisited (Condensed) 1 eksemplar
Classic American Fiction: four books by F. Scott Fitzgerald in a single file, improved 8/25/2010 (2009) 1 eksemplar
A Short Trip Home 1 eksemplar
Getsbi i madh 1 eksemplar
The Basil, Josephine, and Gwen Stories (Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald) (2022) 1 eksemplar
“The Long Way Out” 1 eksemplar
Best of Fitzgerald: The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2020) 1 eksemplar
The Great Gatsby - Reader's Library Classic 1 eksemplar
Đại Gia Gatsby 1 eksemplar
The beautiful amd damned 1 eksemplar
O grande Gatsby [sem capa, sem lombada] 1 eksemplar
The Great Gatsby Coloring Book 1 eksemplar
The last tycoon : an unfinished novel 1 eksemplar
Porcelain and Pink 1 eksemplar
Collectible Deluxe THE GREAT GATSBY and OTHER CLASSIC WORKS Bonded Leather Collectible Book NEW 1 eksemplar
28 RACCONTI - 2 VOLUMI 1 eksemplar
This Side of Paradise the famous novel of flaming youth by Fitzgerald D140 Dell paperback 1 eksemplar
The Greatest Tales of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Bernice Bobs Her Hair, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, The Curious Case of… (2017) 1 eksemplar
The Great Gatsby. Collector's Edition in Full Leather Introduction by Charles Scribner III 1 eksemplar
En forfatters eftermiddag og andre noveller 1 eksemplar
By F. Scott Fitzgerald Babylon Revisited (First edition & printing in this fo) [Paperback] 1 eksemplar
Ingen titel 1 eksemplar
F . Scott Fitzgerald Collection: Benjamin Button, This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Diamond as big… (2020) 1 eksemplar
Piękność południa i inne opowiadania. tom 1 1 eksemplar
The Great Gatsby - facsímile do manuscrito 1 eksemplar
Patt Hobby & Orson Welles 1 eksemplar
The stories of F. Scott Fizgerald 1 eksemplar
ESTE LADO DO PARAISO 1 eksemplar
جاتسبي العظيم 1 eksemplar
Short Stories, Nouvelles Edition Bilingue 1 eksemplar
Estranho embora íntimos e outros contos inéditos 1 eksemplar
F. Scott Fitzgerald (5 Volume Set) 1 eksemplar
Τρυφερή εἶναι ἡ νύχτα 1 eksemplar
Az ólomkristály 1 eksemplar
TALES OF THE JAZZ AGE Easton Press 1 eksemplar
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Greatest Novels: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, Tales of the Jazz Age,… (2021) 1 eksemplar
F. Scott Fitzgerald : inscriptions 1 eksemplar
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- Kanonisk navn
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Juridisk navn
- Fitzgerald, Francis Scott Key
- Andre navne
- D'Invilliers, Thomas Parke
- Fødselsdato
- 1896-09-24
- Dødsdag
- 1940-12-21
- Begravelsessted
- Rockville Union Cemetery, Rockville, Maryland, USA (1940)
St. Mary's Cemetery, Rockville, Maryland, USA (1975, reburied at the family plot) - Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
- Dødssted
- Hollywood, California, USA
- Dødsårsag
- heart attack
- Bopæl
- St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Buffalo, New York, USA
New York, New York, USA
Towson, Maryland, USA
Hollywood, California, USA
Hackensack, New Jersey, USA (vis alle 10)
Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Montgomery, Alabama, USA
Paris, France
Encino, California, USA - Uddannelse
- Holy Angels Convent
Nardin Academy
St. Paul Academy
Newman School
Princeton University - Erhverv
- novelist
short-story writer
screenwriter
playwright
poet
lyricist (vis alle 7)
second lieutenant - Relationer
- Fitzgerald, Zelda (wife)
Smith, Scottie Fitzgerald (daughter)
Lanahan, Eleanor (granddaughter)
Perkins, Maxwell E. (friend)
Wilson, Edmund (friend)
Hemingway, Ernest (friend) (vis alle 14)
Cowley, Malcolm (friend)
Murphy, Gerald (friend)
Lardner, Ring (friend)
West, Nathanael (friend)
Bishop, John Peale (friend)
Graham, Sheilah (girlfriend)
Key, Francis Scott (cousin)
Ring, Frances Kroll (personal secretary) - Organisationer
- United States Army
- Priser og hædersbevisninger
- New Jersey Hall of Fame
Fitzgerald Theater - Agent
- Harold Ober (1929--1940)
- Kort biografi
- Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and short-story writer, although he was best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age—a term which he coined. During his lifetime, he published four novels, four collections of short stories, and 164 short stories. Although he temporarily achieved popular success and fortune in the 1920s, Fitzgerald only received wide critical and popular acclaim after his death. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.
Fitzgerald was born into an upper-middle-class family in St. Paul, Minnesota, but was primarily raised in New York. He attended Princeton University, but due to a failed relationship and a preoccupation with writing, he dropped out in 1917 to join the army. While stationed in Alabama, he fell in love with rich socialite Zelda Sayre. Although she initially rejected him due to his financial situation, Zelda agreed to marry Fitzgerald after he had published the commercially successful This Side of Paradise (1920).
In the 1920s, Fitzgerald frequented Europe, where he was influenced by the modernist writers and artists of the "Lost Generation" expatriate community, particularly Ernest Hemingway. His second novel, The Beautiful and Damned (1922), propelled him into the New York City elite. To maintain his lifestyle during this time, he also wrote several stories for magazines. His third novel, The Great Gatsby (1925), was inspired by his rise to fame and relationship with Zelda. Although it received mixed reviews, The Great Gatsby is now widely praised, with some even labeling it the "Great American Novel". While Zelda was placed at a mental institute for her schizophrenia, Fitzgerald completed his final novel, Tender Is the Night (1934).
Faced with financial difficulties due to the declining popularity of his works, Fitzgerald turned to Hollywood, writing and revising screenplays. After a long struggle with alcoholism, he died in 1940, at the age of 44. A fifth, unfinished novel, The Last Tycoon (1941), was completed by Edmund Wilson and published after Fitzgerald's death.
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