美国文学选读 菲茨杰拉德详细介绍

■ 4.1 Novels ■ 4.2 Short story collections ■ 4.3 Notable short stories ■ 4.4 Other notable works ■ 4.5 The Cambridge Edition of the
Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald ■ 5 Notes ■ 6 References ■ 7 Further reading ■ 8 External links
Scott spent the first decade of his childhood primarily in Buffalo, New York (1898–1901 and 1903– 1908, with a short interlude in Syracuse, New York between January 1901 and Sept both practicing Catholics, sent Scott to two Catholic schools on the West Side of Buffalo, first Holy Angels Convent (1903–1904, now disused) and then Nardin Academy (1905–1908). His formative years in Buffalo revealed him to be a boy of unusual intelligence and drive with a keen early interest in literature, his doting mother ensuring that her son had all the advantages of an upper-middle-class upbringing.[7] In a rather unconventional style of parenting, Scott attended Holy Angels with the peculiar arrangement that he go for only half a day—and was allowed to choose which half.[6]
When Scott was ten years old, his father was fired from Procter & Gamble, and the family returned to Minnesota, where Fitzgerald attended St. Paul Academy in St. Paul from 1908–1911. His first literary effort, a detective story, was published in a school newspaper when he was 13. When he was 16, he was expelled from St. Paul Academy for neglecting his studies. He attended Newman School, a prep school in Hackensack, New Jersey, in 1911–1912, and entered Princeton University in 1913 as a member of the Class of 1917. There he became friends with future critics and writers Edmund Wilson (Class of 1916) and John Peale Bishop (Class of 1917), and wrote for the Princeton Triangle Club and the Princeton Tiger. His absorption in the Triangle—a kind of musical-comedy society—led to his submission of a novel to Charles Scribner's Sons where the editor praised the writing but ultimately rejected the book. He was a member of the University Cottage Club, which still displays Fitzgerald's desk and writing materials in its library. A poor student, Fitzgerald left Princeton to enlist in the US Army during World War I; however, the war ended shortly after Fitzgerald's enlistment.[8]
■ 1 Life and career ■ 1.1 Zelda Fitzgerald ■ 1.2 "The Jazz Age" ■ 1.3 Hollywood years ■ 1.4 Illness and death
■ 2 Legacy ■ 3 Portrayals ■ 4 Bibliography
Died
December 21, 1940 (aged 44) Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States
Occupation novelist, short story writer, poet
Nationality Period
American 1920–40
Genres
Modernism
Literary movement
Lost Generation
Signature
/wiki/F._Scott_Fitzgerald
2012-4-13
F. Scott Fitzgerald - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Novels such as The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night were made into films, and in 1958 his life from 1937–1940 was dramatized in Beloved Infidel.
Contents
Page 2 of 11
Life and career
Born in 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota to an upper middle class Irish Catholic family, Fitzgerald was named after his famous second cousin, three times removed, Francis Scott Key,[2] but was referred to as "Scott." He was also named after his deceased sister, Louise Scott,[3] one of two sisters who died shortly before his birth. "Well, three months before I was born," he wrote as an adult, "my mother lost her other two children....I think I started then to be a writer."[4]. His parents were Mollie (McQuillan) and Edward Fitzgerald.[5]
Zelda Fitzgerald
Main article: Zelda Fitzgerald
While at a country club, Fitzgerald met Zelda Sayre (1900–1948), the "golden girl," in Fitzgerald's terms, of Montgomery, Alabama youth society. Fitzgerald attempted to lay a foundation for his life with Zelda. Despite working at an advertising firm and writing short stories, he was unable to convince Zelda that he would be able to support her, leading her to break off the engagement. Scott returned to his parents' house at 599 Summit Avenue, on Cathedral Hill, in St. Paul, to revise The Romantic Egoist. Recast as This Side of Paradise, about the post-WWI flapper generation, it was accepted by Scribner's in the fall of 1919, and Zelda and Scott resumed their engagement. The novel was published on March 26, 1920, and became one of the most popular books of the year. Scott and Zelda were married in New York's St. Patrick's Cathedral. Their only child, Frances Scott "Scottie" Fitzgerald, was born on October 26, 1921 and died on June 16, 1986.