SwissEduc: Fitzgerald, F. Scott: 1896

Biography
Chronologies: University of South Carolina, zeldafitzgerald.com (detailed chronology with pictures)
Timelines: Minnesota Public Radio, PBS (with pictures)
Bibliography
F. Scott Fitzgerald and his first love, Ginevra King
Portrait by David Silvette
Zelda met F. Scott Fitzgerald at one of the military dances, and he stood out from the crowd in his fancy Brooks Brothers uniform and cream-colored boots. Zelda said, He smelled like new goods. He told her that she looked like the heroine in the novel he was writing. They went on their first date on Zelda's birthday, July 24, 1918. She never forgot that day. They got engaged, but Zelda's parents didn't approve of Scott, because he didn't have any money. He moved to New York and tried desperately to publish his first novel so that he could make something of himself and marry her. The novel was rejected twice, so Scott quit his job in New York and moved home with his parents in St. Paul, Minnesota to rewrite it one more time. While he worked, Zelda wrote him letters about the men she had been dating and about how maybe they should break off the engagement. He quoted lines from her letters in his novel, which was about a man who loses a girl because he doesn't have enough money. He retitled it This Side of Paradise, and in September of 1919, he received word that it would be published...
By the time the stock market crashed in 1929, Fitzgerald had started to crash too. His marriage was coming apart--Zelda had her first nervous breakdown in 1930. The changes that came with the Great Depression made F. Scott Fitzgerald seem like ancient history, along with everything else from the "Roaring Twenties." He had written about the lives of the rich, and now he remained associated with them and had fallen out of favor. His books, including The Great Gatsby (1925), did not sell well. In 1929, the Saturday Evening Post paid him $4,000 per story, but his total royalties on seven books that year were only $31.77. In 1932, as the Great Depression was approaching its worst point, Fitzgerald was living in New York, a city that he loved. He said, "New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world."
from The Writer's Almanac
Enchanted Places: The Use of Setting in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Fiction; by Aiping Zhang, Assistant Professor of English at California State University, Chico.
Fitzgerald's 'Radiant World' by Thomas Flanagan. New York Review of Books; December 21, 2000
About Trimalchio, an early version of Gatsby. Order Trimalchio from Amazon (France, Germany, UK, USA)
Great Scott! by Geoff Dyer
How other authors view Fitzgerald
A Personal Reflection by Garrison Keillor
Elizabeth Farnsworth talks to Joseph Heller, author of Catch-22, and Fitzgerald biographer Matthew Bruccoli. Transcript of a PBS Program, September 27, 1996
Beautiful but damned. 75 years after The Great Gatsby, Jason Cowley remembers F. Scott Fitzgerald's doomed youth. April 8, 2000
Obituaries
F. Scott Fitzgerald: American Novelist and Short Story Writer by Bryant Mangum, Virginia Commenwealth University
Fitzgerald as Novelist by Bryant Mangum, Virginia Commenwealth University, 1998
Introduction to the Novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald by Bryant Mangum, Virginia Commenwealth University, 1981
Fitzgerald and the Movies by Judith S. Baughman
Fitzgerald Crossword Puzzle. How much do you know about Fitzgerald's works and life?
Sharon Pollock wrote the play Angel's Trumpet, 2001. A play about the lives of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.
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