F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
Autore di Il grande Gatsby
Sull'Autore
F(rancis) Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on September 24, 1896. He was educated at Princeton University and served in the U.S. Army from 1917 to 1919, attaining the rank of second lieutenant. In 1920 Fitzgerald married Zelda Sayre, a young woman of the upper class, and they had a mostra altro daughter, Frances. Fitzgerald is regarded as one of the finest American writers of the 20th Century. His most notable work was the novel, The Great Gatsby (1925). The novel focused on the themes of the Roaring Twenties and of the loss of innocence and ethics among the nouveau riche. He also made many contributions to American literature in the form of short stories, plays, poetry, music, and letters. Ernest Hemingway, who was greatly influenced by Fitzgerald's short stories, wrote that Fitzgerald's talent was "as fine as the dust on a butterfly's wing." Yet during his lifetime Fitzgerald never had a bestselling novel and, toward the end of his life, he worked sporadically as a screenwriter at motion picture studios in Los Angeles. There he contributed to scripts for such popular films as Winter Carnival and Gone with the Wind. Fitzgerald's work is inseparable from the Roaring 20s. Berenice Bobs Her Hair and A Diamond As Big As The Ritz, are two short stories included in his collections, Tales of the Jazz Age and Flappers and Philosophers. His first novel The Beautiful and Damned was flawed but set up Fitzgerald's major themes of the fleeting nature of youthfulness and innocence, unattainable love, and middle-class aspiration for wealth and respectability, derived from his own courtship of Zelda. This Side of Paradise (1920) was Fitzgerald's first unqualified success. Tender Is the Night, a mature look at the excesses of the exuberant 20s, was published in 1934. Much of Fitzgerald's work has been adapted for film, including Tender is the Night , The Great Gatsby, and Babylon Revisited which was adapted as The Last Time I Saw Paris by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1954. The Last Tycoon, adapted by Paramount in 1976, was a work in progress when Fitzgerald died of a heart attack on December 21, 1940, in Hollywood, California. Fitzgerald is buried in the historic St. Mary's Cemetery in Rockville, Maryland. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: F. Scott Fitzgerald Papers, Manuscripts Division,
Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections,
Princeton University Library
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Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections,
Princeton University Library
(photo courtesy of Princeton University)
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Opere di F. Scott Fitzgerald
Novels and Stories 1920-1922: This Side of Paradise / Flappers and Philosophers / The Beautiful and the Damned / Tales… (2000) 432 copie
The curious case of Benjamin Button, and six other stories (Penguin Modern Classics) (2008) 182 copie
F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Life in Letters: A New Collection Edited and Annotated by Matthew J. Bruccoli (1994) 122 copie
Collected Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading): Flappers and Philosophers and… (2007) 121 copie
Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby' (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald) (2000) 119 copie
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby, All the Sad Young Men & Other Writings 1920–26 (LOA #353) (Library of… (2022) 98 copie
This Side of Paradise and Other Classic Works (Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection) (2013) 89 copie
The Great Gatsby / Tender is the Night / This Side of Paradise / The Beautiful and the Damned / The Last Tycoon (1977) 61 copie
Tender Is the Night / This Side of Paradise / The Great Gatsby / The Last Tycoon (1948) — Autore — 61 copie
Curious Case of Benjamin Button & Other Stories (Penguin Active Reading (Graded Readers)) (2011) 30 copie
The Thoughtbook of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Secret Boyhood Diary (Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage) (1965) 29 copie
F. Scott Fitzgerald Four Pack - Benjamin Button, This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Diamond as big as… (2014) 18 copie
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and Other Stories [adapted - Longman Structural Readers] (1974) 13 copie
As ever, Scott Fitz--;: Letters between F. Scott Fitzgerald and his literary agent Harold Ober, 1919-1940 (1972) 12 copie
Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940 (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald) (v. 4) (2005) 10 copie
I grandi romanzi e i racconti: Al di qua del paradiso-Belli e dannati-Il grande Gatsby-Tenera è la notte-Racconti… (2011) 10 copie
F. Scott Fitzgerald Collection: The Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and Damned and Tender is the Night (Collins Classics) (2009) 8 copie
Absolution, Le Premier Mai (May Day), Retour a Babylone (Babylon Revisited) (French Edition) (1972) 8 copie
Crack Up - With Other Uncollected Pieces, Note-books & Unpublished Letters, Together With Letters From Gertrude Stein.. (1956) 7 copie
The Classic F. Scott Fitzgerald Collection: 5-Volume box set edition (Arcturus Classic Collections, 4) (2021) 6 copie
Penguin Readers Level 5: "the Baby Party" and Other Stories: Book and Audio Cassette (Penguin Readers Simplified Text) (1995) 6 copie
Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald 6 copie
The Great Gatsby, the Stories, the Last Tycoon, This Side of Paradise, Tender is the Night (1953) 6 copie
Gods of Darkness 5 copie
Crazy Sunday 5 copie
The Great Gatsby and Related Stories [Deckle Edge Paper]: The Library of America Corrected Text (2023) 4 copie
TRÊS HORAS ENTRE DOIS AVIÕES 4 copie
Reading & Training : F. Scott Fitzgerald : The great Gatsby [book + sound recording] (2008) — Writer — 4 copie
The I.O.U. 3 copie
A Night At The Fair 3 copie
Benjamin Button / This Side of Paradise / The Beautiful and Damned / The Diamond as big as The Ritz 3 copie
Estranhos Embora Íntimos e Outros Contos Inéditos — Autore — 3 copie
Great Interviews of the 20th Century: F Scott Fitzgerald by Michel Mok (2007) — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Novels 3 copie
Troppo Carina Per Dirlo A Parole (Italian Edition) Piccoli Classici Paperback (Too cute for words and tell other… (1994) 3 copie
Reading & Training : F. Scott Fitzgerald : The diamond as big as the Ritz [book + sound recording] (2008) — Writer — 3 copie
Belos e Malditos 3 copie
Il curioso caso di Benjamin Button The curious case of Benjamin Button. Ediz. bilingue integrale. Con Segnalibro (2020) 3 copie
This Side of Paradise / The Last Tycoon — Autore — 3 copie
F. Scott Fitzgerald Collection, 45 Works: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, Flappers and Philosphers,… (2013) 3 copie
Spires and Gargoyles: Early Writings, 1909-1919 (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald) (2010) 3 copie
A este lado del paraíso ; El gran Gatsby ; [traducción, A este lado del paraíso, Juan Benet Goitia… (1979) — Autore — 2 copie
THE CRACK-UP E OUTROS ESCRITOS 2 copie
Rare F Scott Fitzgerald / FRANKLIN LIBRARY THE STORIES OF F SCOTT Limited 1st ed 1977 (1977) 2 copie
The Baby Party {short story} 2 copie
Cuentos 2 copie
Fie Fie Fi-Fi: A Facsimile of the 1914 Musical Score, With Illustrations from the Original (1996) 2 copie
Mal Por Mal e Outros Contos 2 copie
Natten Är Ljuv 2 copie
38 racconti (racconti) 2 copie
The F. Scott Fitzgerald Collection Volume One: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, Flappers and… (2020) 2 copie
Financiando a Finnegan 2 copie
PLAZERAREN GAU ILUNEKOAK 2 copie
The Basil, Josephine, and Gwen Stories (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald) (2009) 2 copie
The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night, This Side of Paradise, The Stories : 4 Volume Set (1969) 2 copie
Noveller 2 copie
The Great Gatsby This Side of Paradise Tender Is the Night Tales of the Jazz Age Babylon Revisited The Last Tycoon The… (1991) 2 copie
The Crack-Up & other stories 2 copie
Velský Garsby 1 copia
Festa da ballo 1 copia
Ventotto racconti 1 copia
Sogni invernali (in 38 racconti) 1 copia
La cosa sensata (in 38 racconti) 1 copia
Assoluzione (in 38 racconti) 1 copia
The Last Tycoon 1 copia
L'ultima bella (in 38 racconti) 1 copia
Due torti (in 38 racconti) 1 copia
GETSBI I MADH 1 copia
Ir maiga nakts-- : romāns 1 copia
28 Racconti (Vol.1) 1 copia
Létà del jazz 1 copia
Mas Aca del Paraíso 1 copia
Собрание сочинений в трех томах 1 copia
Book B0BTK6G5SV 1 copia
La Fêlure 1 copia
BLINDETEA NOPTII 1 copia
La tarde de un escritor 1 copia
La longue fuite 1 copia
Niño Bien 1 copia
Francis Scott Fitzgerald - La Festa dei bambini | Mary Wilkins Freeman - Il vento nel cespuglio di rose — Autore — 1 copia
Cuentos de Scott Fitzerald 1 copia
Великий Гэтсби (Russian Edition) 1 copia
Tenera è la notte 1 copia
Due pionieri (in 38 racconti) 1 copia
Folle domenica (in 38 racconti) 1 copia
I Capolavori Di Francis Scott Fitzgerald. Di qua dal paradiso. Il grande Gatsby. Tenera e la notte. 1 copia
Son Dus 1 copia
Historia de Pat Hobby 1 copia
kaunis ja kadotukseen tuomittu 1 copia
Z tej strony raju 1 copia
gli ultimi fuochi 1 copia
"Une centaine de Faux départs" 1 copia
Entre trois et quatre 1 copia
Winter Dreams - Sogni dìinverno 1 copia
Takový Pěkný Par 1 copia
The Stories of Fitzgerald 1 copia
Emotional Bankruptcy 1 copia
Set of Three Books/ This Side of Paradise, the Great Gatsby, the Last Tycoon, By F. Scott Fitzgerald (1948) 1 copia
PLAR3:The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Multi Rom For Pack (Penguin Active Reading (Graded Readers)) (2011) 1 copia
The Hungry Ocean 1 copia
Издержки хорошего воспитания 1 copia
Nessun titolo 1 copia
F . Scott Fitzgerald Collection: Benjamin Button, This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Diamond as big… (2020) 1 copia
The Greatest Tales of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Bernice Bobs Her Hair, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, The Curious Case of… (2017) 1 copia
The Premium Major Collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Annotated): (Collection Includes The Beautiful and Damned, The… (2017) 1 copia
The Genius Of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Flappers And Philosophers ( 8 Short Stories) (Volume 1) (2009) 1 copia
A Short Trip Home 1 copia
F. Scott Fitzgerald Papers 1 copia
The Dial, Vol. 1. — owner — 1 copia
Works of Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald. Incl: The Beautiful and Damned, This Side of Paradise, Tales of the Jazz Age,… (2009) 1 copia
Classic American Fiction: four books by F. Scott Fitzgerald in a single file, improved 8/25/2010 (2009) 1 copia
Borrowed time; short stories 1 copia
Somnis d'hivern ; també: La Bernice es talla els cabells = Winter dreams ; also: Bernice bobs her hair (2013) 1 copia
Babylon Revisited (Condensed) 1 copia
Una storia scandalosa. Racconto 1 copia
Best Jazz Age Stories 1 copia
Fragments de paradis : Love Boat et 63 autres nouvelles suivies de Tendre est la nuit (2011) 1 copia
Racconti dispersi vol. II 1 copia
28 RACCONTI - 2 VOLUMI 1 copia
Porcelain and Pink 1 copia
Collectible Deluxe THE GREAT GATSBY and OTHER CLASSIC WORKS Bonded Leather Collectible Book NEW 1 copia
The beautiful amd damned 1 copia
The Basil, Josephine, and Gwen Stories (Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald) (2022) 1 copia
“The Long Way Out” 1 copia
Best of Fitzgerald: The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2020) 1 copia
Terna E A Noite 1 copia
Suve é a Noite 1 copia
F Scott Fitzgerald 4 Book Set 1 copia
Getsbi i madh 1 copia
The Vegetable; Or, from President to Postman (Read & Co. Classics Edition);With the Introductory Essay 'The Jazz Age… (2022) 1 copia
Az ólomkristály 1 copia
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Greatest Novels: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, Tales of the Jazz Age,… (2021) 1 copia
Τρυφερή εἶναι ἡ νύχτα 1 copia
Đại Gia Gatsby 1 copia
Patt Hobby & Orson Welles 1 copia
ESTE LADO DO PARAISO 1 copia
جاتسبي العظيم 1 copia
Opere correlate
Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker (2001) — Collaboratore — 706 copie
The American Short Story: A Collection of the Best Known and Most Memorable Stories by the Great American Authors (1994) — Collaboratore — 317 copie
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps (2009) — Collaboratore — 262 copie
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994) — Collaboratore — 183 copie
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest (2013) — Collaboratore — 146 copie
Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America's Past and Each Other (2001) — Collaboratore — 132 copie
Adaptations: From Short Story to Big Screen: 35 Great Stories That Have Inspired Great Films (2005) — Collaboratore — 121 copie
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (Expanded 10th-Anniversary Edition) (2008) — Collaboratore — 93 copie
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Collaboratore — 81 copie
Published and Perished: Memoria, Eulogies, and Remembrances of American Writers (2002) — Collaboratore — 37 copie
Best-Loved Short Stories: Flaubert, Chekhov, Kipling, Joyce, Fitzgerald, Poe and Others (2004) — Collaboratore — 22 copie
Pause to Wonder: Stories of the Marvelous , Mysterious and Strange (1944) — Collaboratore — 12 copie
Amerika, Amerika bloemlezing — Collaboratore — 8 copie
The Best Short Stories of 1931 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1931) — Collaboratore — 7 copie
The Best Short Stories of 1940 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1940) — Collaboratore — 6 copie
The Best Short Stories of 1922 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (2017) — Collaboratore — 6 copie
Best-In-Books, Volume 48: Dodsworth / Great Impersonation / Green Hat / Along With Other Short Stories and Excerpts (1961) — Collaboratore — 5 copie
The Best from Cosmopolitan — Collaboratore — 4 copie
Wives and Lovers — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Modern Short Stories — Collaboratore — 3 copie
The Best Short Stories of 1933 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Avon Modern Short Story Monthly No. 7 (14 Great stories by 14 Great Authors) (1943) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Nome legale
- Fitzgerald, Francis Scott Key
- Altri nomi
- D'Invilliers, Thomas Parke
- Data di nascita
- 1896-09-24
- Data di morte
- 1940-12-21
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Rockville Union Cemetery, Rockville, Maryland, USA (1940)
St. Mary's Cemetery, Rockville, Maryland, USA (1975, reburied at the family plot) - Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Hollywood, California, USA
- Causa della morte
- heart attack
- Luogo di residenza
- St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Buffalo, New York, USA
New York, New York, USA
Towson, Maryland, USA
Hollywood, California, USA
Hackensack, New Jersey, USA (mostra tutto 10)
Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Montgomery, Alabama, USA
Paris, France
Encino, California, USA - Istruzione
- Holy Angels Convent
Nardin Academy
St. Paul Academy
Newman School
Princeton University - Attività lavorative
- novelist
short-story writer
screenwriter
playwright
poet
lyricist (mostra tutto 7)
second lieutenant - Relazioni
- Fitzgerald, Zelda (wife)
Smith, Scottie Fitzgerald (daughter)
Lanahan, Eleanor (granddaughter)
Perkins, Maxwell E. (friend)
Wilson, Edmund (friend)
Hemingway, Ernest (friend) (mostra tutto 14)
Cowley, Malcolm (friend)
Murphy, Gerald (friend)
Lardner, Ring (friend)
West, Nathanael (friend)
Bishop, John Peale (friend)
Graham, Sheilah (girlfriend)
Key, Francis Scott (cousin)
Ring, Frances Kroll (personal secretary) - Organizzazioni
- United States Army
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- New Jersey Hall of Fame
Fitzgerald Theater - Agente
- Harold Ober (1929--1940)
- Breve biografia
- Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and short-story writer, although he was best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age—a term which he coined. During his lifetime, he published four novels, four collections of short stories, and 164 short stories. Although he temporarily achieved popular success and fortune in the 1920s, Fitzgerald only received wide critical and popular acclaim after his death. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.
Fitzgerald was born into an upper-middle-class family in St. Paul, Minnesota, but was primarily raised in New York. He attended Princeton University, but due to a failed relationship and a preoccupation with writing, he dropped out in 1917 to join the army. While stationed in Alabama, he fell in love with rich socialite Zelda Sayre. Although she initially rejected him due to his financial situation, Zelda agreed to marry Fitzgerald after he had published the commercially successful This Side of Paradise (1920).
In the 1920s, Fitzgerald frequented Europe, where he was influenced by the modernist writers and artists of the "Lost Generation" expatriate community, particularly Ernest Hemingway. His second novel, The Beautiful and Damned (1922), propelled him into the New York City elite. To maintain his lifestyle during this time, he also wrote several stories for magazines. His third novel, The Great Gatsby (1925), was inspired by his rise to fame and relationship with Zelda. Although it received mixed reviews, The Great Gatsby is now widely praised, with some even labeling it the "Great American Novel". While Zelda was placed at a mental institute for her schizophrenia, Fitzgerald completed his final novel, Tender Is the Night (1934).
Faced with financial difficulties due to the declining popularity of his works, Fitzgerald turned to Hollywood, writing and revising screenplays. After a long struggle with alcoholism, he died in 1940, at the age of 44. A fifth, unfinished novel, The Last Tycoon (1941), was completed by Edmund Wilson and published after Fitzgerald's death.
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Eppure è difficile resistere al fascino di questo sogno. Perché? Perché ha la forza dei sogni dell'adolescenza, quando si è invincibili di fronte al mondo. Quando si ha la forza e l'indeterminatezza di essere qualunque cosa.
E qual è questo sogno? Cosa vuole Jay Gatsby? Egli vuole sposare la donna che ama, Daisy, e per farlo lui, povero soldato di umili origini, deve rendersi degno di lei agli occhi del mondo. Come? Diventando ricco, ma così ricco da non poter essere ignorato.
Ebbene, Gatsby ci riesce. Ma Daisy, desiderosa di mantenere costante il suo livello di benessere, si è già sposata con il rampollo di una ricca famiglia, Tom Buchanan. Ricco quanto rozzo, Tom condivide con molti - forse tutti - dei suoi pari la convinzione che gli arricchiti siano feccia inferiore, incapaci della loro specchiata moralità.
Ma la moralità di Tom non emerge mai dal romanzo. Mai. Tom, come Daisy d'altro canto, è terribilmente superficiale. Essere da sempre stati abituati a schioccare le dita e ad ottenere quello che volevano li ha resi incapaci di dare il giusto valore a cose e persone.
E questo abisso tra il sogno di Gatsby e la superficialità di Daisy annienterà il primo e salverà la seconda. E l'ordine - sbagliato, corrotto, ma pur sempre ordine - del mondo sarà preservato. Gatsby sapeva che il denaro non ha valore. E' ciò che possiamo comprare con il denaro a possedere il valore. E questo Daisy, donna in cerca di stabilità, e Tom, uomo fiero delle sue origini, non l'hanno mai capito.… (altro)