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F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) Dominant influences on FSF Aspiration; Literature; Princeton; Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald; Alcohol. Life Experiences (1) 24 September 1896 Birth of Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald in St. Paul, Minnesota. October 1909 Publication of “The Mystery of the Raymond Mortgage”, FSF’s first appearance in print. September 1913 FSF enters Princeton University with Class of 1917 February 1919 FSF discharged from army. Planning to marry Zelda Sayre. Life Experiences (2) 26 March 1920 Publication of This Side of Paradise. 3 April 1920 Marriage of FSF and Zelda Sayre. 10 April 1925 Publication of The Great Gatsby. 21 December 1940 FSF dies of heart attack. Major Works This Side of Paradise (1920) Flappers and Philosophers (1920) The Beautiful and Damned (1920) Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) The Great Gatsby (1925) Tender Is the Night (1934) The Last Tycoon (1941) This Side of Paradise: an introduction In 1919 Fitzgerald rewrote the book as This Side of Paradise. Its publication by Scribners in April 1920 made him a literary celebrity before his twenty-fourth birthday. Set mostly at Princeton, This Side of Paradise was the most influential American college novel of its time and announced the arrival of a younger generation with new values and aspirations. The Great Gatsby (1925) The Great Gatsby: plot Jay Gatsby is a man possessed—driven by greed, ambition and, most of all, an unwavering desire for a woman he met before the Great War, when he was poor and she was unobtainable. As Gatsby reinvents himself in an attempt to buy his way into the social elite of Long Islands Gold Coast, he yearns to rekindle his romance with the woman who stole his heart years before. But when the chance finally arrives, a shadow of tragedy is cast over what Gatsby long-imagined would be his triumphant moment. F. Scott Fitzgerald Fitzgerald’s clear, lyrical, colorful, witty style evoked the emotions associated with time and place. The chief theme of Fitzge