Born in 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota, F. SCOTT FITZGERALD dropped
out of Princeton University in 1917 to join the army. He met the
socialite Zelda Sayre while stationed in Alabama and married her in
1920 after the success of This Side of Paradise. Fame, money, and
alcohol took their toll on the young couple. After Zelda was
institutionalized, Fitzgerald moved to Hollywood in 1937. His
experiences there inspired the unfinished novel The Last Tycoon
(1941). His major works include The Beautiful and Damned (1922),
The Great Gatsby (1925), All the Sad Young Men (1926), and Tender
is the Night (1934). Fitzgerald died of heart failure in Hollywood
in 1940.
JAMES L. W. WEST III is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English,
Emeritus, at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of The
Perfect Hour- The Romance of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ginevra King,
among other works, and was for many years the General Editor of the
Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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