F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald, ca. 1920. Courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society
"F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896, attended Princeton University, and published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. That same year he married Zelda Sayre and the couple divided their time among New York, Paris, and the Riviera, becoming a part of the American expatriate circle that included Getrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and John Dos Passos. Fitzgerald was a major new literary voice, and his masterpieces include The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender is the Night. He died of a heart attack in 1940 at the age of forty-four, while working on The Love of the Last Tycoon. For his sharp social insight and breathtaking lyricism, Fitzgerald stands out as one the most important American writers of the twentieth century."
From the back cover of A Cornell Edition of The Great Gatsby
Learn more about F. Scott Fitzgerald's life and literary career by sampling the resources listed below. Included here are links to biographical web sites, access to selected Cornell digital resources, and recommended books and media from the Cornell University Library collections.
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Biographical sources
Chronologies and Timelines
Works by and about F. Scott Fitzgerald
Digital Resources from Cornell University Library Collections
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E-books
- Gale, Robert L. An F. Scott Fitzgerald Encyclopedia. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998. [Ebrary electronic access, 2005] Requires free Ebrary reader software.
- Hook, Andrew. F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Literary Life. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. Ebrary electronic access, 2005. [Ebrary electronic access, 2005] Requires free Ebrary reader software.
- Pelzer, Linda Claycomb. Student Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000. [NetLibrary] Click on view this eBook.
E-journals
- Piper, Henry Dan. Review of The Far Side of Paradise: A Biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald by Arthur Mizener. American Literature, Vol. 23, No. 3. (Nov., 1951), pp. 371-373. [JSTOR]
- Wagner, Linda W. Review of Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald by Matthew J. Bruccoli. American Literature, Vol. 54, No. 2. (May, 1982), pp. 304-306. [JSTOR]
Additional Cornell Resources
Books
F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Bruccoli, Matthew, and Scottie Fitzgerald Smith and Joan P. Kerr, editors. The Romantic Egoists: A Pictorial Autobiography from the Scrapbooks and Albums of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. New York, Scribner, 1974.
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- Bruccoli, Matthew Joseph. Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald. 2nd rev. ed. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2002.
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- Mellow, James R. Invented Lives. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984.
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- Mizener, Arthur. The Far Side of Paradise. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1951.
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"Fitzgerald's life has, apart from its close connection with his work, a considerable interest of its own; it was a life at once representative and dramatic, at moments a charmed and beautiful success to which he and his wife, Zelda, were brilliantly equal, and at moments disastrous beyond the invention of the most macabre imagination."
from Chapter I, The Far Side of Paradise
- Mizener, Arthur. Scott Fitzgerald and His World. New York, Putnam, 1972.
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- Engar, Ann W. Arthur Mizener. Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 103: American Literary Biographers, First Series. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Edited by Steven Serafin, Hunter College of The City University of New York. The Gale Group, 1991. pp. 184-191.
Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald
- Cline, Sally. Zelda Fitzgerald: Her Voice in Paradise. New York: Arcade, 2003.
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- Milford, Nancy. Zelda. New York: Harper and Row, 1970.
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