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F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

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F(rancis) Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on September 24, 1896. He was educated at Princeton University and served in the U.S. Army from 1917 to 1919, attaining the rank of second lieutenant. In 1920 Fitzgerald married Zelda Sayre, a young woman of the upper class, and they had a näytä lisää daughter, Frances. Fitzgerald is regarded as one of the finest American writers of the 20th Century. His most notable work was the novel, The Great Gatsby (1925). The novel focused on the themes of the Roaring Twenties and of the loss of innocence and ethics among the nouveau riche. He also made many contributions to American literature in the form of short stories, plays, poetry, music, and letters. Ernest Hemingway, who was greatly influenced by Fitzgerald's short stories, wrote that Fitzgerald's talent was "as fine as the dust on a butterfly's wing." Yet during his lifetime Fitzgerald never had a bestselling novel and, toward the end of his life, he worked sporadically as a screenwriter at motion picture studios in Los Angeles. There he contributed to scripts for such popular films as Winter Carnival and Gone with the Wind. Fitzgerald's work is inseparable from the Roaring 20s. Berenice Bobs Her Hair and A Diamond As Big As The Ritz, are two short stories included in his collections, Tales of the Jazz Age and Flappers and Philosophers. His first novel The Beautiful and Damned was flawed but set up Fitzgerald's major themes of the fleeting nature of youthfulness and innocence, unattainable love, and middle-class aspiration for wealth and respectability, derived from his own courtship of Zelda. This Side of Paradise (1920) was Fitzgerald's first unqualified success. Tender Is the Night, a mature look at the excesses of the exuberant 20s, was published in 1934. Much of Fitzgerald's work has been adapted for film, including Tender is the Night , The Great Gatsby, and Babylon Revisited which was adapted as The Last Time I Saw Paris by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1954. The Last Tycoon, adapted by Paramount in 1976, was a work in progress when Fitzgerald died of a heart attack on December 21, 1940, in Hollywood, California. Fitzgerald is buried in the historic St. Mary's Cemetery in Rockville, Maryland. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
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Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections,
Princeton University Library
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Yleistieto

Kanoninen nimi
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Virallinen nimi
Fitzgerald, Francis Scott Key
Muut nimet
D'Invilliers, Thomas Parke
Syntymäaika
1896-09-24
Kuolinaika
1940-12-21
Hautapaikka
Rockville Union Cemetery, Rockville, Maryland, USA (1940)
St. Mary's Cemetery, Rockville, Maryland, USA (1975, reburied at the family plot)
Sukupuoli
male
Kansalaisuus
USA
Syntymäpaikka
St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Kuolinpaikka
Hollywood, California, USA
Kuolinsyy
heart attack
Asuinpaikat
St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Buffalo, New York, USA
New York, New York, USA
Towson, Maryland, USA
Hollywood, California, USA
Hackensack, New Jersey, USA (näytä kaikki 10)
Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Montgomery, Alabama, USA
Paris, France
Encino, California, USA
Koulutus
Holy Angels Convent
Nardin Academy
St. Paul Academy
Newman School
Princeton University
Ammatit
novelist
short-story writer
screenwriter
playwright
poet
lyricist (näytä kaikki 7)
second lieutenant
Suhteet
Fitzgerald, Zelda (wife)
Smith, Scottie Fitzgerald (daughter)
Lanahan, Eleanor (granddaughter)
Perkins, Maxwell E. (friend)
Wilson, Edmund (friend)
Hemingway, Ernest (friend) (näytä kaikki 14)
Cowley, Malcolm (friend)
Murphy, Gerald (friend)
Lardner, Ring (friend)
West, Nathanael (friend)
Bishop, John Peale (friend)
Graham, Sheilah (girlfriend)
Key, Francis Scott (cousin)
Ring, Frances Kroll (personal secretary)
Organisaatiot
United States Army
Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
New Jersey Hall of Fame
Fitzgerald Theater
Agentti
Harold Ober (1929--1940)
Lyhyt elämäkerta
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and short-story writer, although he was best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age—a term which he coined. During his lifetime, he published four novels, four collections of short stories, and 164 short stories. Although he temporarily achieved popular success and fortune in the 1920s, Fitzgerald only received wide critical and popular acclaim after his death. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.

Fitzgerald was born into an upper-middle-class family in St. Paul, Minnesota, but was primarily raised in New York. He attended Princeton University, but due to a failed relationship and a preoccupation with writing, he dropped out in 1917 to join the army. While stationed in Alabama, he fell in love with rich socialite Zelda Sayre. Although she initially rejected him due to his financial situation, Zelda agreed to marry Fitzgerald after he had published the commercially successful This Side of Paradise (1920).

In the 1920s, Fitzgerald frequented Europe, where he was influenced by the modernist writers and artists of the "Lost Generation" expatriate community, particularly Ernest Hemingway. His second novel, The Beautiful and Damned (1922), propelled him into the New York City elite. To maintain his lifestyle during this time, he also wrote several stories for magazines. His third novel, The Great Gatsby (1925), was inspired by his rise to fame and relationship with Zelda. Although it received mixed reviews, The Great Gatsby is now widely praised, with some even labeling it the "Great American Novel". While Zelda was placed at a mental institute for her schizophrenia, Fitzgerald completed his final novel, Tender Is the Night (1934).

Faced with financial difficulties due to the declining popularity of his works, Fitzgerald turned to Hollywood, writing and revising screenplays. After a long struggle with alcoholism, he died in 1940, at the age of 44. A fifth, unfinished novel, The Last Tycoon (1941), was completed by Edmund Wilson and published after Fitzgerald's death.

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This is the second time I’ve read this book. The first was 25 years ago as a sophomore in high school for my AP English class. I enjoyed it then and enjoyed it still.

As an adult I appreciate it more and understand the complexities of the novel, of the characters that I missed at 15/16. The depths of human nature in the face of social status, love, hate, sadness and grief.

This is a classic that I feel people should read at least once in their lives.
 
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TiffanyCutshall | 1,138 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Dec 3, 2023 |
 
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KeithK999 | 1,138 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Dec 3, 2023 |
Vepra që shënoi pikën kulmore në krijimtarinë e F. Scott Fitzgerald. Kjo është historia e Jay Gatsby, një i ri i pashëm dhe i pasur, dhe dashurisë së tij për bukuroshen Daisy. Një përshkrim i mrekullueshëm i periudhës kur, siç e përshkruan “The New York Times”, “xhini ishte pija kombëtare dhe seksi obsesioni i përgjithshëm”.
 
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BibliotekaFeniks | Dec 1, 2023 |
A romantic glow hangs over this beautiful picture like a San Francisco fog rolling across the Golden Gate Bridge. The story is based on the fine literary novel by Erich Maria Remarque, and was adapted to the screen by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Frank Borzage was the perfect choice as director for this story of three German WWI expatriates who have bonded for life and the tubercular waif they all love in varying ways. It has all the great romanticism Borzage was famous for bringing to his art, and this marvelous adaptation of Remarques masterpiece concluded his trilogy of otherworldly love intruded upon by war: Seventh Heaven, A Farewell to Arms, and Three Comrades. A sense of impending tragedy even during the happier scenes creates what one might call romantic noir, even though no crime has been committed.

Robert Taylor portrays Erich, the younger and more innocent of the three comrades. Robert Young is Gottfried, an idealist angry at the post-war rise of fascism. And Franchot Tone, in one of his finest roles, is Otto, the world-weary pragmatist. Their lives are changed forever when they meet up with fragile Margaret Sullavan, who gave the finest performance of her career as the sweet and courages Pat. Pat is dying of tuberculosis, but has just enough time left for Taylor to fall in love with her, and to touch the lives of his two friends.

Each of the comrades falls in love with her in other ways, the threesome becoming a foursome; a makeshift family trying to keep fate at bay just a little while longer. The luminous performance by Sullavan is one you will always remember. Director Frank Borzage creates a sense of doom underneath every light and happy moment the comrades share together, the romantic glow growing a little dimmer as destiny looms like a storm cloud just over the next hill.

You will rarely see a film so full of love, as Sullavan imparts to each of the comrades what they need, and in turn receives two friends who love and cherish her — and one who loves her even more. Tone gives his weary character considerable depth. Taylor's Erich is likable as the young brash member of friends, somewhat lost after the war is over and still a bit naive. Robert Young gives another solid performance as he captures the anger and restlessness of a world that has just come out of a war, yet finds itself moving in that direction again.

This was Remarque and Fitzgerald at their best, two great writers complementing each other. Director Frank Borzage brought a sensitivity and romanticism to his art few have ever matched. Margaret Sullavan gives the greatest performance of her career, her own life as fragile as Pat's, ending tragically years later. The final shot of Three Comrades is not one easily forgotten. Though elements of Remarque’s novel were softened due to the time period in which this film was made, it still resonates.

If you love the magic of film, and enjoy the romanticism only film can bring to our hearts, you’ll be moved by Three Comrades. An enduring masterwork.
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Edgard Cirlin Cover artist
Francis Cugat Cover artist
Ken Bush Editor
William Hope Narrator
Lutz-W. Wolff Translator
Bill Amberg Cover designer
Maria Tsaneva Illustrator
Jacques Tournier Translator
Tony Tanner Introduction
Kyle Tait Narrator
Tom Burns Illustrator
Enn Soosaar Translator
Sam Sloan Foreword
Franca Cavagnoli Translator
Hal Siegel Illustrator
L. Cornils Translator
Susan Janssen Translator
Mary Bess Engel Cover designer
H.W.J. Schaap Translator
Dennis Potter Introduction
Hanna Neves Übersetzer
Terenci Moix Translator
Edward Shenton Illustrator
Walter E. Richartz Übersetzer
Bradley Clark Cover artist
Glynn Boyd Harte Illustrator
Chris Hughes Narrator
Chris Hendrie Narrator
Mark F. Smith Narrator
Sharon G. Carson Introduction
Dawkins Dean Narrator
C James Moore Narrator
Jeff Woodman Narrator
Dick Hill Narrator
J. C. Leyendecker Cover artist
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Pagan Harleman Introduction
Don Hagen Narrator
Ernst van Altena Translator
Suzanne Mayoux Translator, Traduction
Eugene Ivanov Cover artist
Laura Bortoluzzi Translator
Calef Brown Illustrator
Mauro Formaggio Translator
Robert Gantt Steele Cover artist
Pamela Cannon Cover designer
Dominique Aury Translator
Kinuko Y. Craft Cover artist
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Ruoxi Chen Editor
Christine Foltzer Cover designer
C J Foeckler Author photo
Guido Golüke Translator
Arnold Gingrich Introduction
Scottie Fitzgerald Smith Introduction, Editor
John Kuehl Editor
Penny Martin Cover artist
Julie Verhoeven Cover artist
Alan Munro Narrator
John O'Hara Introduction
James Dickey Foreword
Catherine Cronin Rights manager
Pas Paschali Production editor
Gavin Brammall Art director
Paul Laity Series editor
Charlotte Maguire Picture editor
Darren Gavigan Production
Rupert Degas Narrator
Martin Jarvis Narrator
Kerry Shale Narrator
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