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Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are evocative of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. He is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century`s greatest writers. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the Twenties. He finished four novels, including This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender is the Night and his most famous, the celebrated novel, The Great Gatsby. A fifth novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon was published posthumously. Fitzgerald also wrote many short stories that treat themes of youth and promise along with despair and age.
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Quotes The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. Family quarrels are bitter things. They don`t go according to any rules. They`re not like aches or wounds, they`re more like splits in the skin that won`t heal because there`s not enough material. In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o`clock in the morning, day after day. The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look; At 45 they are caves in which we hide. Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure. [on Errol Flynn] He seemed very nice though rather silly and fatuous. [on Joan Crawford] Why do her lips have to be glistening wet? I don`t like her smiling to herself. Her cynical accepting smile has gotten a little tired. She can not fake her bluff. "Grow up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to ship it and go from one childhood to another." "No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there." "What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story." "Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over." "A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big." "Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different." On Free Will: "The man who arrives young believes that he exercises his will because his star is shining. The man who only asserts himself at thirty has a balanced idea of what will power and fate have each contributed, the one who gets there at forty is liable to put the emphasis on will alone." On Despair: "In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o`clock in the morning, day after day." On California and the West: "Only remember-west of the Mississippi it`s a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk." On Age and Aging in your Twenties: "One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax." On belief: "At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide." On alcohol: "It`s a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don`t see or care."Trivia Is buried at St. Mary`s Catholic Cemetary in Rockville, Maryland. Is portrayed by Malcolm Gets in Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994) Coined the term the Jazz Age in reference to the Roaring Twenties. Was a mentor and close friend of the young Ernest Hemingway, who grew more distant with him as Hemingway`s fame grew and Fitzgerald`s declined and he became increasingly more dependent on alcohol. Hemingway disapproved of Fitzgerald`s lowering his great talent to write high-priced stories for the slick commercial magazines like The Saturday Evening Post and his sojourns in Hollywood to make money writing screenplays. Unlike his great contemporaries Fitzgerald, Faulkner and Steinbeck, Hemingway never wrote for the movies, but he had no objection to selling his novels and short stories to the studios. He tried writing movie scripts but was frustrated by the image-based medium, which he had difficulty comprehending as it was so different from the language-based forms of the novel and short-story that he excelled in. "The Gatsby Style", named for his 1925 novel "The Great Gatsby", was honored on one of fifteen 32¢ US commemorative postage stamps in the "Celebrate the Century" series, issued 28 May 1998, celebrating the 1920s. First novel was `This Side of Paradise`, written shortly after attending Princeton Died of a heart attack in Hollywood while writing The Last Tycoon, a novel which was published unfinished. Was named after Francis Scott Key who was a distant relative of his. He moved to Paris in 1924 and wrote his third novel, The Great Gatsby. The Fitzgeralds returned to the U.S. in 1930. He tried writing movie scripts without success. Had first heart attack at Schwab`s Drugstore on Sunset Boulevard in November of 1940. | ||
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