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A 5 page paper which examines the biography of novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: TG15_TGfarside.rtf
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as a novelist was largely forgotten. At the time of his death, none of his books were in print and he was forced to pay his mounting debts by
touching up screenplays, for which he seldom received so much as a screen credit. He had been dismissed as a tragic reminder of everything that was wrong with Americas
Jazz Age. His career was the light that burned brightly but only briefly, snuffed out too soon because of excess. But author Arthur Mizener sought to change the
publics perception of F. Scott Fitzgerald. With unprecedented access to Fitzgeralds wealth of personal materials - scrapbooks, manuscripts, letters and journals - as well as abundant supplemental material provided
by the late authors friends and colleagues, Mizener composed a detailed and insightful biography of the man and his work. The Far Side of Paradise, which was first published
in 1951, is particularly impressive because it is the first biography on F. Scott Fitzgerald so Mizener had to rely completely on his own research. It was and remains
the work by which all future biographies (and there have been quite a few) continue to be judged. As the biography reveals, his aristocratic persona was largely manufactured, because although
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald had some illustrious ancestors, including the composer of The Star-Spangled Banner, his upbringing was decidedly middle-class. Born in St. Paul Minnesota in 1896, Fitzgerald only
attended Catholic boarding school because of his aunts financial support, and when he went to Princeton University, his performance was lackluster and he failed to make the football team or
to graduate with the class of 1917. Fitzgerald then entered the military and while stationed in Alabama, he became dazzled by a flirtatious Southern belle named Zelda Sayre.
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