F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American novelist and short-story writer whose fiction portrayed the Jazz Age, especially its wealth, ambition, and disillusionment.

The Great Gatsby: Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel follows Nick Carraway’s account of Jay Gatsby’s pursuit of Daisy Buchanan. Its doomed pursuit of wealth and love became Fitzgerald’s defining portrait of the Jazz Age.
Saint Paul, Minnesota: A city in Minnesota where Fitzgerald was born and spent much of his childhood. His Midwestern upbringing supplied settings and social contrasts that recur in his fiction.
Maxwell Perkins: An American editor known for working with major twentieth-century novelists at Charles Scribner’s Sons. Perkins edited Fitzgerald’s novels and helped guide their revision and publication.
Unreliable narrator: A narrator whose account is limited, biased, or otherwise unreliable as a representation of events. Nick Carraway’s selective perspective shapes how The Great Gatsby’s characters and past are disclosed.
The Saturday Evening Post: An American magazine that published fiction and journalism, including many Fitzgerald stories. Its payments for Fitzgerald’s stories supported his income and connected his fiction to a mass audience.
Tender Is the Night: Fitzgerald’s 1934 novel follows psychiatrist Dick Diver and his wife Nicole through wealth, illness, and decline. The novel turns Fitzgerald’s interest in glamour and breakdown toward expatriate life in Europe.
Princeton University: A private university in New Jersey that Fitzgerald attended without graduating. Princeton shaped his early literary ambitions and inspired settings in This Side of Paradise.
Ernest Hemingway: An American novelist and short-story writer who lived in Paris during the 1920s. Fitzgerald and Hemingway formed a consequential, sometimes difficult literary friendship.
Narrative frame: A story structure in which one narrative surrounds or introduces another. Gatsby’s story reaches the reader through Nick’s retrospective framing.
The Great Gatsby (1949 film): A 1949 film adaptation of Fitzgerald’s novel, directed by Elliott Nugent and starring Alan Ladd. The adaptation shows how the novel’s reputation extended into popular cinema.

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