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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, widely known as F. Scott Fitzgerald or simply Scott Fitzgerald, was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age, a term that he popularized in his short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age. He published four novels, four story collections, and 164 short stories. He achi…
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culture · American writer (1896–1940) · writer · novelist · short story writer · screenwriter · playwright · also F. Scott Fitzgerald, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Scott Fitzgerald, Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald
Born 24 September 1896 · Died 21 December 1940 · Q93354
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2026· 8 entries
“it was characteristic of the Jazz Age that it had no interest in politics at all”
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“s works and that his flawed alcoholic friend had posthumously become”
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“s Weekly, and Esquire. He would first write his stories in an”
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Stock Titan: StubHub (STUB) exec Scott Fitzgerald plans sale of 84,970 shares
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elcaribe.com.do: ¿El Huevo de Mark Twain o la gallina de Scott Fitzgerald?
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AOL.com: Best-Selling 1925 Novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald Named the ‘Best Romance Book of the 20th Century’
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iHeart: 6.30: Early Edition with Scott Fitzgerald - Kentuckiana's Morning News
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2025· 3 entries
Chicago Tribune: Vintage Chicago Tribune: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ and ‘The Big Four’
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Yahoo: F. Scott Fitzgerald Never Saw ‘The Great Gatsby’ Become a Classic
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Yahoo: F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' celebrates 100 years
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2024· 1 entry
The Guardian: F Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night review – archive, October 1934
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2023· 1 entry
Wall Street Journal: ‘The Last Tycoon’ Review: F. Scott Fitzgerald vs. Hollywood
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2020· 2 entries
Snopes.com rated the claim “A letter was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1920 while the author was quarantined in France during the "Spanish influenza" pandemic.” False.
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VOA rated the claim ““Read the classics. This is a quarantine letter by F. Scott Fitzgerald, who was isolated in south of France in 1920 due to the Spanish influenza.”” False.
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2009· 1 entry
Awarded New Jersey Hall of Fame (2009).
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1993· 1 entry
A new edition was published as The Love of the Last Tycoon, edited by Matthew J
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1975· 1 entry
Scottie successfully petitioned to have the earlier decision revisited, and her parents' remains were moved to the family plot in Saint Mary's
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1952· 1 entry
Critic Cyril Connolly observed that "apart from his increasing stature as writer, Fitzgerald is now firmly established as a myth, an American version of the Dying God, an Adonis of letters" whose rise and fall inevitably
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1948· 1 entry
Was buried next to him in Rockville Cemetery
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1945· 1 entry
That Fitzgerald had finally attained a grand and distinctive style as a novelist; consequently, even as an unfinished fragment, the dimensions of his work raised "the level of American fiction" in the same way that "Marl
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1940· 11 entries
Died 1940-12-21.
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“Kiedy kupuje krawat, zawsze pyta, czy kolor puszcza od dżinu.”
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Westbrook Pegler wrote in a column for The New York World-Telegram that the author's passing recalled "memories of a queer bunch of undisciplined and self-indulgent brats who were determined not to pull their weight in t
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“Byłem w nim wiele razy. Ale nigdy go tak naprawdę nie widziałem. A teraz to nie jest to, co chcę zobaczyć. Chcę zobaczyć, w jaki sposób chodzą ludzie, jakie są ich ubrania, buty i czapki. I jakie są ich oczy i ręce. Czy mógłbyś uścisnąć mi dłoń?”
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“Im więcej wiesz, tym więcej pozostaje do poznania i wciąż tego przybywa.”
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“Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.”
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“No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.”
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“Można gładzić ludzi słowami.”
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“Najbardziej winien jest ten, kto pierwszy wynalazł świadomość. Więc straćmy ją na parę godzin.”
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“Oznaką inteligencji najwyższej klasy jest zdolność do uznawania dwóch przeciwstawnych idei jednocześnie.”
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“Opis: o tworzeniu postaci w utworze.”
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1939· 1 entry
MGM terminated his contract, and Fitzgerald became a freelance screenwriter
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1937· 1 entry
That necessitated his relocation to Hollywood
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1934· 1 entry
And no author was so identified with the generation recorded
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1933· 1 entry
Journalist Matthew Josephson criticized Fitzgerald's short stories saying that many Americans could no longer afford to drink champagne whenever they pleased or to go on vacation to Montparnasse in Paris
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1931· 1 entry
Alone, he earned nearly $40,000 (equivalent to $846,827 in 2025) by churning out seventeen short stories in quick succession
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1924· 1 entry
Fitzgerald was in a drunken brawl that ended in a Rome police station, there he punched an officer and was severely beaten by others
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1922· 1 entry
That, as Fitzgerald matured as a writer, he would become regarded as one of the greatest authors of American literature
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1921· 1 entry
Zelda gave birth to their daughter and only child Frances Scott "Scottie" Fitzgerald
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1919· 3 entries
Moved to New York City, where he unsuccessfully begged the editors of various newspapers for a job
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A tubercular hemorrhage in 1929, and required hospitalization for active TB in 1939 after a conclusive sputum culture test
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“s ring, and the two became officially engaged. Several of Fitzgerald”
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1917· 1 entry
Studied at Princeton University (1913–1917).
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1913· 1 entry
Fitzgerald enrolled at Princeton University and became one of the few Catholics in the student body
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1911· 2 entries
Studied at St. Paul Academy and Summit School (1908–1911).
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Fitzgerald's parents sent him to the Newman School, a Catholic prep school in Hackensack, New Jersey
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1908· 1 entry
Studied at Nardin Academy (1905–1908).
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1896· 2 entries
Born 1896-09-24.
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In Saint Paul, Minnesota, to a middle-class Catholic family, Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was named after Francis Scott Key, a distant cousin who wrote the lyrics in 1814 for the song "The Star-Spangled Banner", which be
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1865· 1 entry
For conspiring to assassinate Abraham Lincoln
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