"F. Scott Fitzgerald Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American fiction writer, whose works helped to illustrate the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age. While he achieved popular success, fame, and fortune in his lifetime, he did not receive much critical acclaim until after his death. Perhaps the most notable member of the ""Lost Generation"" of the 1920s, Fitzgerald is now widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. He finished four novels: ""This Side of Paradise"", ""The Beautiful and Damned"", ""The Great Gatsby"", and ""Tender Is"
"Zelda Fitzgerald Zelda Fitzgerald (; July 24, 1900 – March 10, 1948) was an American socialite, novelist, painter and wife of author F. Scott Fitzgerald. Born in Montgomery, Alabama, she was noted for her beauty and high spirits, and was dubbed by her husband as ""the first American Flapper"". She and Scott became emblems of the Jazz Age, for which they are still celebrated. The immediate success of Scott's first novel ""This Side of Paradise"" (1920) brought them into contact with high society, but their marriage was plagued by wild drinking, infidelity and bitter recriminations. Ernest Hemingway, whom Zelda disliked,"
"of which was published posthumously). John D. Fitzgerald John Dennis Fitzgerald (February 3, 1906 – May 21, 1988) was an American author, most notable for The Great Brain series of children's books. Fitzgerald was born in Price, Utah, the son of an Irish Catholic father and a Scandinavian Mormon mother. He had two older brothers, Thomas (1902-1988; the basis for the character known as the Great Brain) and William; two younger brothers, Charles and Gerald; and an older sister, Isabelle (known as ""Belle""). He left Utah in 1925, at the age of 18, and held a variety of jobs, including"
"John D. Fitzgerald John Dennis Fitzgerald (February 3, 1906 – May 21, 1988) was an American author, most notable for The Great Brain series of children's books. Fitzgerald was born in Price, Utah, the son of an Irish Catholic father and a Scandinavian Mormon mother. He had two older brothers, Thomas (1902-1988; the basis for the character known as the Great Brain) and William; two younger brothers, Charles and Gerald; and an older sister, Isabelle (known as ""Belle""). He left Utah in 1925, at the age of 18, and held a variety of jobs, including playing in a jazz band,"
"Robert Fitzgerald Robert Stuart Fitzgerald (; 12 October 1910 – 16 January 1985) was an American poet, critic and translator whose renderings of the Greek classics ""became standard works for a generation of scholars and students."" He was best known as a translator of ancient Greek and Latin. In addition, he also composed several books of his own poetry. Fitzgerald grew up in Springfield, Illinois, and graduated from The Choate School (now Choate Rosemary Hall) in Wallingford, Connecticut. He entered Harvard in 1929, and in 1931 a number of his poems were published in Poetry magazine. After graduating from Harvard"
"Frances Scott Fitzgerald Frances Scott ""Scottie"" Fitzgerald (October 26, 1921 – June 18, 1986) was the only child of novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald. She was a writer, a journalist (for ""The Washington Post"", ""The New Yorker"", ""The Northern Virginia Sun"", and others), and a prominent member of the Democratic Party. She was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 1992. Fitzgerald was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Upon her birth, her mother supposedly remarked that she hoped Scottie would be a ""beautiful little fool,"" which Daisy Buchanan also says in ""The Great Gatsby"", F."
"""my mother lost her other two children ... I think I started then to be a writer."" His father, Edward Fitzgerald, was of Irish and English ancestry, and had moved to St. Paul from Maryland after the American Civil War, and was described as ""a quiet gentlemanly man with beautiful Southern manners."" His mother was Mary ""Molly"" McQuillan Fitzgerald, the daughter of an Irish immigrant who had made his fortune in the wholesale grocery business. Edward Fitzgerald's first cousin once removed Mary Surratt was hanged in 1865 for conspiring to assassinate Abraham Lincoln. Scott Fitzgerald spent the first decade of"
"This Side of Paradise This Side of Paradise is the debut novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was published in 1920. Taking its title from a line of Rupert Brooke's poem ""Tiare Tahiti"", the book examines the lives and morality of post–World War I youth. Its protagonist, Amory Blaine, is an attractive Princeton University student who dabbles in literature. The novel explores the theme of love warped by greed and status seeking. The novel famously helped F. Scott Fitzgerald gain Zelda Sayre's hand in marriage due to its success. In the summer of 1919, after less than a year of"
"in Forest Gate in West Ham, Essex in 1888. His parents were Patrick Fitzgerald (1831–1908), a labourer from south Tipperary, and Mary Anne Scollard (1847–1927) from Castleisland, County Kerry. He changed his first name as a teenager to the more romantic ""Desmond"", and first visited Ireland in 1910. He was a student at St Bonaventure's. In London, he was a member of the Tour Eiffel group of poets and writers, which included Ezra Pound, T.E. Hulme, F.S. Flint and another Irish writer, Joseph Campbell. The group was named after the restaurant in which the group met, the Tour Eiffel in"
"in 1918. In July and August 1919, Fitzgerald rewrote the manuscript that became his first novel, ""This Side of Paradise"". He lived here until January 1920, writing short stories, and then moved to New Orleans. Of the several places the Fitzgeralds lived, this one is most closely associated with his literary fame, and typifies the environments of some of his later works. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1971. It is also a contributing property to the Historic Hill District, listed in 1976. F. Scott Fitzgerald was noted for disliking Summit Avenue, stating that Summit Avenue is “a"
"Edward FitzGerald (poet) Edward FitzGerald (31 March 1809 – 14 June 1883) was an English poet and writer, best known as the poet of the first and most famous English translation of ""The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam"". The writing of his name as both FitzGerald and Fitzgerald is seen. The use here of FitzGerald conforms to that of his own publications, anthologies such as Quiller-Couch's ""Oxford Book of English Verse"", and most reference books up until about the 1960s. Edward FitzGerald was born Edward Purcell at Bredfield House in Bredfield, around 2 miles north of Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, in 1809."
"Other Side Of Paradise."" The lyrics detail a one-sided, chaotic relationship. The central plot of John Grisham's ""Camino Island"" centers around F. Scott Fitzgerald's manuscripts, including ""This Side of Paradise"", which were stolen from the Firestone Library at Princeton University. This Side of Paradise This Side of Paradise is the debut novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was published in 1920. Taking its title from a line of Rupert Brooke's poem ""Tiare Tahiti"", the book examines the lives and morality of post–World War I youth. Its protagonist, Amory Blaine, is an attractive Princeton University student who dabbles in literature. The"
"R. D. Fitzgerald Robert David FitzGerald III AM OBE (22 February 1902 – 24 May 1987) was an Australian poet. FitzGerald was born in Hunters Hill, New South Wales, a third-generation Australian of Irish extraction, and studied science at the University of Sydney. He left before graduating, however, and followed in the footsteps of both his father and grandfather Robert D. FitzGerald by taking up a post as a surveyor. In the 1930s he travelled to Fiji where he worked the Native Lands Commission, surveying tribal boundaries, an experience important to his poetry. He spent World War II doing engineering"
"world to her. Fitzgerald wrote the novel in a blend of first person and third person narrations. While the story is ostensibly told by Cecelia, many scenes are narrated in which she is not present. Occasionally a scene will be presented twice, once through Cecelia and once through a third party. The revised edition of ""The Love of The Last Tycoon"" won the Choice Outstanding Academic Books award of 1995. The Last Tycoon The Last Tycoon is an unfinished novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. In 1941, it was published posthumously under this title, as prepared by his friend Edmund Wilson,"
"years at Princeton. Fitzgerald was so short of money that he took up a job repairing car roofs. His revised novel was accepted by Scribner's in the fall of 1919 and was published on March 26, 1920 and became an instant success, selling 41,075 copies in the first year. It launched Fitzgerald's career as a writer and provided a steady income suitable to Zelda's needs. They resumed their engagement and were married at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York. Their daughter and only child, Frances Scott ""Scottie"" Fitzgerald, was born on October 26, 1921. Paris in the 1920s proved the most"
"reported to have been cast as Zelda Fitzgerald in a biopic of the Fitzgeralds titled ""The Beautiful and The Damned"". Musician G-Eazy titled his junior album after the novel and based a number of the song concepts off of what was going on in the book and in his own life. Christina Ricci plays Zelda Fitzgerald in the Amazon show ""Z, The Beginning of Everything"". E-text. The Beautiful and Damned The Beautiful and Damned, first published by Scribner's in 1922, is F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel. It explores and portrays New York café society and the American Eastern elite during"
"Rose and Al Dubin, makes reference to the first of the stanzas quoted above. FitzGerald's translations were popular in the century of their publication, and since its publication humourists have used it for purposes of parody. Edward FitzGerald (poet) Edward FitzGerald (31 March 1809 – 14 June 1883) was an English poet and writer, best known as the poet of the first and most famous English translation of ""The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam"". The writing of his name as both FitzGerald and Fitzgerald is seen. The use here of FitzGerald conforms to that of his own publications, anthologies such as"
"constant best-seller, is required reading in many high school and college classes. Fitzgerald is a 2009 inductee of the New Jersey Hall of Fame. He is also the namesake of the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota, home of the radio broadcast of ""A Prairie Home Companion"". Cambridge University Press has published the complete works of F. Scott Fitzgerald in authoritative annotated editions. The Cambridge Edition runs to fifteen volumes. Fitzgerald's works have been adapted into films many times. One of the earliest Fitzgerald short stories was adapted into a 1921 silent film ""The Off-Shore Pirate"". His short story, ""The"
"interfere with the private — and sometimes public — activities of its often unconventional patrons. The Garden of Allah became home to many celebrities and literary figures. F. Scott Fitzgerald lived there for several months in 1937–38 at the beginning of his final stay in Hollywood. He wrote himself a postcard while there: ""Dear Scott — How are you? Have been meaning to come in and see you. I have living [sic] at the Garden of Allah. Yours, Scott Fitzgerald."" Fitzgerald's biographer and lover Sheilah Graham later wrote a book about the place, titled simply ""The Garden of Allah"". Humorist"
"The Adjuster (short story) ""The Adjuster"" is a short story written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. The story appears in Fitzgerald's third collection of short stories All the Sad Young Men, published by Scribners in February 1926. The story depicts the troubled relationship of married couple Luella and Charles Hemple, living in New York City in 1925. The Adjuster is the sixth story in the collection. All the Sad Young Men was published a year after his third and most celebrated novel, The Great Gatsby, and contains 9 stories: F. Scott Fitzgerald was born on 24 September 1896 at"
"F. Scott Fitzgerald and Edmund Wilson. Christian Gauss Christian Gauss (1878 – 1951) was a literary critic and professor of literature. Gauss was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His father had fled Württemberg when Prussia began to dominate it in the 1860s. The son graduated from the University of Michigan at 20, worked as a newspaper correspondent in Paris, covering the Dreyfus case during which time he met Oscar Wilde who dedicated one of his poems to Gauss. Later Gauss taught at Michigan and Lehigh University in the United States, and in 1905 became a first preceptor at Princeton University,"
"and William Faulkner. In 1932 he edited a special ""Contempo"" issue devoted to Faulkner’s work, now much coveted by Faulkner collectors. Tony Buttitta met F. Scott Fitzgerald during the summer of 1935, while he was the proprietor of the bookshop in the George Vanderbilt Hotel. Fitzgerald was down on his luck and confided in the younger Italian-looking man. Later, in 1974, he published a book about the experience, Fitzgerald, nearing forty, was a sick, tired, depressed man often doing his worst writing. However, he took time to instruct Tony about those who influenced him such as John Peale Bishop who"
"John F. Kennedy. Bridgit Fitzgerald Bridgit Fitzgerald (died September 19, 1898 at 78 years old, in parish St-Colomb-de-Sillery, Québec) was a Canadian of Irish descent who was a prominent patron of the English-speaking culture within the Irish community of Quebec City, in the 19th century. Fitzgerald married William Power (Sr.) on September 27, 1843 in Sainte-Foy, Quebec, Canada. Mother of the Canadian politician William Power, and grandmother of the Hon. Charles Gavan Power and William Gerard Power, both Canadian politicians. She travelled to Boston, Massachusetts for the christening of her nephew John F. Fitzgerald, who, in turn, was maternal grandfather"
"C. P. Fitzgerald Charles Patrick Fitzgerald (better known as C. P. Fitzgerald) (5 March 190213 April 1992) was a British historian. He was a professor of East Asian studies with particular focus on China. Fitzgerald was born in London, England. His parents were Dr. Hans Sauer, a South African from Cape Town. and his Irish-born wife Cecile Josephine, née Fitzpatrick. Unable to attend university as his family could not afford the fees, he obtained a job in a bank. Becoming interested in East Asia and in the political developments there, he studied for a diploma in Chinese at the University"
"him its Lorne Pierce Medal in 1962. Scott won the Molson Prize in 1965. In 1966, Scott received an honorary doctorate from Sir George Williams University, which later became Concordia University. Leonard Cohen added music to Scott's villanelle, ""A Villanelle for Our Time"", and recorded it on his album ""Dear Heather"". Scott is the subject of a number of critical works, as well as a major biography, ""The Politics of the Imagination: A Life of F. R. Scott"" by Sandra Djwa. F. R. Scott Francis Reginald Scott, , commonly known as Frank Scott or F. R. Scott (August 1, 1899"
"Michael G. Fitzgerald Michael G. Fitzgerald (December 19, 1950 – February 14, 2006) a native of El Dorado, Arkansas, was a film historian and author. His best known work was 1977's ""Universal Pictures: A Panoramic History in Words, Pictures, and Filmographies"" (published by Arlington House), which chronicled the history of the studio. He also co-authored two books with Boyd Magers, ""Western Women"" and ""Ladies of the Western"", both from McFarland & Co., which consisted of interviews with many leading ladies of western films. He dedicated this book to his nephew, Jon Fitzgerald, who grew up watching old movies with Michael"
"Robert D. FitzGerald Robert David FitzGerald (or possibly Robert Desmond FitzGerald) (30 November 1830 – 12 August 1892) was an Irish-Australian surveyor, ornithologist, botanist and poet. Whilst working as a public servant FitzGerald's private passion and ability regarding ornithology and botany became so skillful that he communicated directly with Charles Darwin regarding Australian species of plant and was referred to several times in the book ""The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species"" of 1877. He also collected orchids for the great German-Australian botanist Ferdinand von Mueller. His extraordinary skills gave rise to a volume of work"
"Babylon Revisited and Other Stories Babylon Revisited and Other Stories is a collection of ten short stories written between 1920 and 1937 by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was published in 1960 by Charles Scribner's Sons. ""Babylon Revisited"" collects ten of F. Scott Fitzgerald's best-known short stories. In an afterword to the 1996 edition, Fitzgerald scholar Matthew Bruccoli describes the period leading up to the selection, ""F. Scott Fitzgerald died believing himself a failure. The obituaries were condescending, and he seemed destined for literary obscurity. The first phase of the Fitzgerald resurrection—'revival' does not properly describe the process—occurred between 1945 and"
"Ginevra King Ginevra King (November 30, 1898 – December 13, 1980) was an American socialite and debutante and was the inspiration for several characters in the novels and short stories of American novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald. King was born in Chicago in 1898, the daughter of Ginevra Fuller and Charles Garfield King. She, like her mother and her grandmother, was named after Leonardo da Vinci's painting ""Ginevra de' Benci"". Her father was a wealthy Chicago businessman and financier. She had two younger sisters, Marjorie and Barbara. Ginevra grew up amid the Chicago social scene, as a member of the elite"
"of the short story. One Trip Abroad ""One Trip Abroad"" is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The story first appeared in the Saturday Evening Post on October 11, 1930. Some of the story's content was later re-used by Fitzgerald in his novel Tender Is the Night (1934). The story consists of two characters, Nelson and Nicole Kelly, two wealthy American expatriates who travel through Europe. Unlike much 1920s literature in which European residence is adventurous and cosmopolitan, the two experience both moral and physical decline in their marriage and in their bodies, symbolized by the Doppelgängers whom they"
"James R. Fitzgerald James R. Fitzgerald (born June 24, 1953) is an American criminal profiler, forensic linguist, and author. He is a retired FBI agent and best known for his role in the UNABOM investigation, which resulted in the arrest and conviction of Ted Kaczynski. Fitzgerald's career in law enforcement began in 1976 when he was hired as a police officer by the municipality of Bensalem Township, Pennsylvania. In 1987, after eleven years of local police work culminating in his promotion to the rank of sergeant, he was recruited by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Upon graduation from the FBI"
"working at a bank and working for a steel company. Fitzgerald published his first novel, ""Papa Married a Mormon"", in 1955. Other novels for adults about late nineteenth and early twentieth century Utah followed. Fitzgerald had many stories published in magazines, and he also co-wrote two textbooks about creative writing. In the 1960s, he turned his attention to books for children, writing the highly successful The Great Brain series, in which his characters are loosely based on people from his own family and community, including himself. The Great Brain is based on his brother, Tom. Fitzgerald changed many family details"
"Flannery O'Connor, who was a boarder at his home in Redding, Connecticut, from 1949 to 1951. Fitzgerald's wife at the time, Sally Fitzgerald, compiled O'Connor's essays and letters after O'Connor's death. Benedict Fitzgerald (who co-wrote the screenplay for ""The Passion of the Christ"" with Mel Gibson), Barnaby Fitzgerald, and Michael Fitzgerald are sons of Robert and Sally. Fitzgerald was married three times. He later moved to Hamden, Connecticut, where he died at his home after a long illness. Robert Fitzgerald Robert Stuart Fitzgerald (; 12 October 1910 – 16 January 1985) was an American poet, critic and translator whose renderings"