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F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Roaring Twenties

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Thursday, March 31, 2016

Vol XCIII, No. 311

F. Scott Fitzgerald cont.

"All the stories that came into my head had a touch of disaster in them..."

F. Scott Fitzgerald 1896-1940

He and Zelda lived lavishly and spent most of the money he earned from his wiritng

They moved from Paris to other cities in the French Riviera and back to Paris frequently

When the stock market crashed, so did Fitzgerald's career and private life

Zelda suffered from a series of nervous breakdowns in 1930 and was hospitalized in Europe and the U.S.

Fitzgerald struggled in the 1930s with alcoholism and with his marriage

HE continued to write novels and stories during this time

He had a contract with MGM and wrote serveral screen-plays in Hollywood

He was working on his fifth novel, The Last Tycoon, when he died of a heart attack at 44 in Hollywood

Zelda died in a hospital fire in North Carolina in 1948

"He was a pretty cool cat."

Fitzgerald's Novels and Screen-Plays

This Side of Paradise

The Beautiful and the Damned

"Winter Dreams"

The Great Gatsby

The Last Tycoon (Unfinished published posthumously)

Three Comrades (uncredited)

Marie Antoinette (uncredited)

Winter Carnival (uncredited)

The Women (uncredited)

Red Headed Woman (uncredited)

Born in St. Paul, Minnesota

Attended Princeton University where he wrote for the newspaper and participated in drama club

Joined army before graduating and met his wife, Zelda Sayre, in 1918 while stationed in the South

A New York publisher rejected the manuscript of his novel The Romantic Egoist.

He worked for and advertising company while living in New York City after the army

He then moved back to St. Paul to revise his novel

The publisher accepted the revision and new title This Side of Paradise

He and Zelda made their first trip to Europe in 1921 but returned to St. Paul for the birth of their daughter, Frances Scott(Scottie)

While in France and Italy, he wrote and revised his most famous novel The Great Gatsby

"Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy." -F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Roaring Twenties

Dramatic social and political change

Major economic growth

19th Amendment

Birth of Mass Culture

Ready to wear clothing and radios

Model T Ford ($260 in 1924)

The Jazz Age(Dance and "moral disasters")

Prohibition

The Great Migration and the National Origins Act of 1924

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