F. Scott Fitzgerald (4252 words)

Anne M Daniel (New School, International School of Georgia)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.3: Early Twentieth-century US-American Writing and Culture, 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Context

Dates

Life: 24-09-1896 to 21-12-1940
Activity: 1916 to 1940

Places

United States (Birth; Primary Activity)

Activities

Novelist (Primary)
Story-writer (Primary)
Essayist (Other)
Film/TV Script-writer/ Screenwriter (Other)
Poet (Other)

Other Resources

Of all the American Modernist writers with tragic lives, F. Scott Fitzgerald holds the franchise. A glittering success as a writer when he was just twenty-three, Fitzgerald died still a young man, at forty-four, most of his works out of print and his status as one of the finest and most popular American writers yet to be established.

Scott Fitzgerald was born at the family home on Laurel Avenue in St. Paul, Minnesota, on September 24, 1896. He was the third child of Mollie McQuillan and Edward Fitzgerald. Their first two children died as infants and Scott, a lovely but sickly child, worried his mother with more than the normal slate of childhood illnesses. A sister, Annabel, was born in July 1901. From the record that survives …

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Citation: Daniel, Anne M. "F. Scott Fitzgerald". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 22 July 2003 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4922, accessed 21 September 2020.]

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