It was during this time that Fitzgerald wrote and published his most famous (and most successful) novel, The Great Gatsby (1926). There, they became part of a community of expatriate American writers that included Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, and Ezra Pound. Passport photo of the Fitzgeralds, with biographical details.Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald moved to Europe (with their young son, Frances Scott “Scottie” Fitzgerald, born in 1921) in 1924 to live more cheaply.(Biographical information continues on the next slide.) Paul, and Long Island, ultimately spending all of the money Fitzgerald earned with his pen. Rich and famous at age 24, he and Zelda were wed. Fitzgerald published a novel in 1920 (This Side of Paradise) that became an immediate bestseller. She rejected him, and he went to New York in 1919 determined to make a fortune and win Zelda’s heart. While stationed in Montgomery, Alabama, Fitzgerald met Zelda Sayre, a local woman with whom he fell madly in love. World War I ended before Fitzgerald saw action, but his decision to join the army would profoundly effect the course of his life. He entered Princeton University when he was seventeen, but left after three years to join the army. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896, Fitzgerald was raised in upstate New York and attended boarding school in New Jersey when he was fifteen years old. Scott Fitzgerald was equally famous as a writer and as a celebrity author whose lifestyle seemed to symbolize the two decades in the 1920s he stood for all-night partying, drinking, and the pursuit of pleasure while in the 1930s he stood for the gloomy aftermath of excess” (NAAL 658).
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