F Scott Fitzgerald's ledger, a detailed chronicle of both his earnings and his life, has been made available online for the first time, giving readers around the world an insight into the daily . [304] Having read and digested these criticisms of his debut novel, Fitzgerald sought to improve upon the form and construction of his prose in his next work and to venture into a new genre of fiction altogether. "It's a funny thing about coming home. Died on December 21, 1940 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. A kick in the pants and a clout over the scalp were more like their needing."[355]. Today, Key is known for penning "The Star-Spangled Banner.". Oftentimes the family trees listed as still in progress have derived from research into famous people who have a kinship to this person. He attended Princeton University where he befriended future literary critic Edmund Wilson. In an effort to abstain from alcohol, Fitzgerald drank large amounts of Coca-Cola and ate many sweets. According to biographer Andrew Turnbull, "one day, drinking martinis in the upstairs lounge, [Fitzgerald] announced that he was going to jump out of the window. [78] She disparaged the teenage Moran as "a breakfast food that many men identified with whatever they missed from life. [260] In Graham's place, her friend Dorothy Parker attended the visitation held in the back room of an undertaker's parlor. Esquire originally published the Pat Hobby Stories between January 1940 and July 1941. [250] In 1939, MGM terminated his contract, and Fitzgerald became a freelance screenwriter. 1908-09 The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald - Dec 13 2020 Together, these forty-three stories compose a vivid picture of a lost era, but their brilliance is timeless. [232][233] Despite earning his highest annual income up to that point ($29,757.87, equivalent to $560,922 in 2021),[232] Fitzgerald spent the bulk of his income on Zelda's psychiatric treatment and his daughter Scottie's school expenses. September 24, 1896, is the birthday of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Username and password are case sensitive. His second novel The Beautiful and Damned was filmed in 1922 and 2010. [304], When composing The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald chose to depart from the writing process of his previous novels and to fashion a conscious artistic achievement. They were impetuous, they were known to drink too much, and they were prone to bouts of serious depression and self-destructive behavior, but no one could ever accuse them of frugality. While writing The Beautiful and Damned, Fitzgerald inserted sentences from his wife's diary. Deceased on December 21 34. [193] In his private diary, Mencken noted Zelda "went insane in Paris a year or so ago, and is still plainly more or less off her base. [254] Approaching the final year of life, Fitzgerald wrote regretfully to his daughter: "I wish now I'd never relaxed or looked backbut said at the end of The Great Gatsby: I've found my linefrom now on this comes first. 00:12. "[391] [289], Remarking upon the cultural association between Fitzgerald and the flaming youth of the Jazz Age, Gertrude Stein wrote in her memoir The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas that the author's fiction essentially created this new generation in the public's mind. [f] It would take decades for the novel to gain its present acclaim and popularity. [66] Rejected over 120 times, he sold only one story, "Babes in the Woods", and received a pittance of $30. [219] Another biographer, Arthur Mizener, notes Fitzgerald had a mild attack of TB in 1919 and conclusively had a tubercular hemorrhage in 1929. [403] The lovers are reunited only after Fitzgerald has attained enough money to take her away from her adulterous husband. F. Isn't she smartshe has the hiccups. [304] He argued that "the thing that chiefly interests the basic Fitzgerald is still the florid show of modern American lifeand especially the devil's dance and that goes on at the top. "[398], Fitzgerald continued this practice throughout his life. Everyone wanted to meet him. Books to readplaces to go. [214] When Ober ceased advancing money, an ashamed Fitzgerald severed ties with his agent believing Ober had lost faith in him due to his alcoholism. [261] Observing few other people at the visitation, Parker murmured "the poor son of a bitch"a line from Jay Gatsby's funeral in The Great Gatsby. "[359] He "sensed a corruption in the rich and mistrusted their might. [127] While the couple were living on Long Island, one of Fitzgerald's wealthier neighbors was Max Gerlach. Fitzgerald is the quintessential American writer. [75], While revising his novel, Fitzgerald took a job repairing car roofs at the Northern Pacific Shops in St. His second novel, The Beautiful and Damned (1922), propelled him further into the cultural elite. [g][198] Despite his annoyance, he insisted upon few revisions to the work,[h] and he persuaded Perkins to publish Zelda's novel. All of his divided nature is in this novel, the naive Midwesterner afire with the possibilities of the American Dream in its hero, Jay Gatsby, and the compassionate Yale gentleman in its narrator, Nick Carraway. [172] In December 1926, after two unpleasant years in Europe which considerably strained their marriage, the Fitzgeralds returned to America. F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda, were guilty of many things. [175] Fitzgerald later rewrote Rosemary Hoytone of the central characters in Tender is the Nightto mirror Moran. [231] He returned to the United States andhis ill-health exacerbated by excessive drinkingunderwent hospitalization at the Doctors Hospital in Manhattan. He inspired Budd Schulberg's novel The Disenchanted (1950),[283] later adapted into a Broadway play starring Jason Robards. [324][325] Edith Wharton lauded Gatsby as such an improvement upon Fitzgerald's previous work that it represented a "leap into the future" for American novels,[324] and T. S. Eliot believed it represented a turning point in American literature. Born on September 24, 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA , United States. The map below shows the places where the ancestors of the famous person lived. [71], In July, Fitzgerald quit his advertising job and returned to St. Despite its lackluster debut, The Great Gatsby is now hailed by some literary critics as the "Great American Novel". He is named after Francis Scott Key, who wrote the lyrics to the "Star-Spangled Banner" and is a distant relative. On December 21, 1940, Scott returned to Sheilah's apartment from a trip to Schwab's and began to have chest pains. [258] Upon entering the apartment, Culver stated, "I'm afraid he's dead. His mother was from a wealthy family, and his father, Edward, was a furniture manufacturer. [201] Scribner's published Zelda's novel in October 1932, but it was a commercial and critical failure. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was . Then I found I needed liquor too. 24. [408] Richard Yates, a writer often compared to Fitzgerald, hailed The Great Gatsby as showcasing Fitzgerald's miraculous talent and triumphal literary technique. When I was little I got to see a huge spread of them," she notes. [167] This "whoring", as Hemingway called these sales, emerged as a sore point in their friendship. Mark Twain. [298] This atonal blend of different fictive elements prompted cultural elites to fte the young Fitzgerald as a literary trailblazer whose work modernized a staid literature that had lagged "as far behind modern habits as behind modern history. Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. The Paper Dolls of Zelda Fitzgerald (128 pages, $25.99). [157], Surveying these posthumous attacks, John Dos Passos opined that many literary critics in popular newspapers lacked the basic discernment about the art of writing. "[329], In contrast to the discernible progression in literary quality and artistic maturity represented by his novels,[289] Fitzgerald's 164 short stories displayed the opposite tendency and attracted significant criticism. [313] He eschewed the realism of his previous two novels and composed a creative work of sustained imagination. When the Stock Market crashed in the autumn of that year, the gaiety was gone. 5 January 2015. While Fitzgerald was probably not trying to specifically present existentialism in his works, Finkelstein describes Fitzgerald's work as having an existential theme: "F. Scott Fitzgerald was of . [119] During an intermission, Fitzgerald asked lead actor Ernest Truex if he planned to finish the performance. [396] Fowler asked that certain passages be excised prior to publication. [330] Whereas he composed his novels with a conscious artistic mindset, money became his primary impetus for writing short stories. As a Princeton undergraduate, Fitzgerald talked books with friends over meals at the Peacock Inn, a 16-room boutique hotel and restaurant a stone's throw . [258] After failed efforts to revive him, Graham ran to fetch Harry Culver, the building's manager. [157], After wintering in Italy, the Fitzgeralds returned to France, where they alternated between Paris and the French Riviera until 1926. Explore 10 surprising facts about the glamorous and tragic life of one of the 20th century's most celebrated writers. You've read my books. [317][318], With the publication of The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald had refined his prose style and plot construction, and the literati now hailed him as a master of his craft. Scott was the best friend a person could have to me". [22][23] The couple began a romantic relationship spanning several years. At 44 years of age, F. Scott Fitzgerald, suffering a massive heart attack, was dead. Fitzgerald portrays the American Dream in the character of Jay Gatsby. [323], The realization that Fitzgerald had improved as a novelist to point that Gatsby was a masterwork was immediately evident to certain members of the literary world. Fitzgerald was also named after his deceased sister, Louise Scott Fitzgerald, one of two sisters who died shortly before his birth. In October 1939 he began a novel about Hollywood, The Last Tycoon. [175] At one party they outraged guests Ronald Colman and Constance Talmadge by a prank: They requested their watches and, retreating into the kitchen, boiled the expensive timepieces in a pot of tomato sauce. He returned to Princeton the next fall, but he had now lost all the positions he coveted, and in November 1917 he left to join the army. The Last Tycoon is an unfinished novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald.In 1941, it was published posthumously under this title, as prepared by his friend Edmund Wilson, a critic and writer. "[331], Realizing that slick magazines such as the Saturday Evening Post and Esquire were more likely to publish stories that pandered to young love and featured saccharine dnouements, Fitzgerald became adept at tailoring his short fiction to the vicissitudes of commercial tastes. [398] When reading This Side of Paradise, Fay wrote to Fitzgerald that the use of his own biographical experiences told in confidence to the young author "gave him a queer feeling. [280] According to Professor John Kuehl of New York University: "If you want to know about Spain, you read Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises. [296] Although Fitzgerald imitated the plot of Mackenzie's novel, his debut work differed remarkably due to its experimental style. [406] In the style of Joseph Conrad, Fitzgerald often employed a narrator's device to unify these passing scenes and imbue them with deeper meaning. "[280], The Great Gatsby's popularity led to widespread interest in Fitzgerald himself. In the early 1920s, Scott and Zelda had the world at their feet. MONTGOMERY, Ala. . [19] As the semesters passed, he formed close friendships with classmates Edmund Wilson and John Peale Bishop, both of whom would later aid his literary career. The song was inspired by seeing the American flay over Fort McHenry in 1814. [240], Throughout their relationship, Graham claimed Fitzgerald felt constant guilt over Zelda's mental illness and confinement. [9] His parents sent him to two Catholic schools on Buffalo's West Sidefirst Holy Angels Convent (19031904) and then Nardin Academy (19051908). Just as we ourselves have faced secret battles, we know others are doing the same. [58] He then turned to writing advertising copy to sustain himself while seeking a breakthrough as an author of fiction. [366][382], Although many contemporary critics and literary peers regarded Fitzgerald as possessing "the best narrative gift of the century. The career of its hero, Monroe Stahr, is based on that of the producer Irving Thalberg. Wrong username or password. [98] "They did both look as though they had just stepped out of the sun", Parker recalled, "their youth was striking. While Fitzgerald's work is inspired by the writing styles of both Conrad and Keats, Fitzgerald is still a remarkable novelist in his own right. It has been the greatest credo in my life that I would rather be an artist than a careerist. F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author of The Great Gatsby, was born in St. Paul, Minn.; he's associated with that city, as well as Paris, the Riviera and New York. [142] Before any confrontation could occur, Jozanwho had no intention of marrying Zeldaleft the Riviera, and the Fitzgeralds never saw him again. Living in a villa in a less fashionable part of Cannes, the Fitzgeralds now avoided the Htel du Cap, a celebrity circus where silk-clad matrons used the pool "only for a short hangover dip". [366] Even if the poorer Americans become rich, they remain inferior to those Americans with "old money". As the author of pivotal texts such as Tender is the Night (1934) and The Great Gatsby (1925), Fitzgerald was poet laureate of the 'Jazz Age', a term he popularised to convey rapidly changing consumerist, economic and sexual attitudes . [108], As their quarrels worsened, the couple accused each other of marital infidelities. [142] Fitzgerald sought to confront Jozan and locked Zelda in their house until he could do so. In 1929, the Fitzgeralds spent their last summer on the Riviera. [280] During the COVID-19 pandemic, the society organized an online reading of This Side of Paradise to mark its centenary. Hemingway spends much of the book A Moveable Feast describing his encounters with F. Scott Fitzgerald, the novelist's problems with alcohol, and his writingHemingway considered The Great Gatsby to be great literature. Fitzgerald is famous for his depictions of the Jazz Age (the 1920s), especially in his novel The Great Gatsby. [29] Although Ginevra loved him,[30] her upper-class family belittled Scott's courtship because of his lower-class status compared to her other wealthy suitors. Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, his father, Edward, from Maryland, held an allegiance to the Old South and its traditional values that he passed along to his son. Best known for The Great Gatsby (1925) and Tender Is the Night (1934)two keystones of modernist fictionFrancis Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was the poet laureate of the "Jazz Age," a term he popularized to convey the post-World War I era's newfound prosperity, consumerism, and shifting . "[181] Fitzgerald's relations with Moran further exacerbated the Fitzgeralds' marital difficulties and, after merely two months in Jazz Age Hollywood, the unhappy couple departed for Delaware in March 1927. [371] His wealthier neighbors viewed the young author and his family to be lower-class, and his classmates at affluent institutions such as Newman and Princeton regarded him as a parvenu. [10] As a boy, Fitzgerald was described by his peers as unusually intelligent with a keen interest in literature. Throughout the novel, readers can see evidence of the "roaring twenties.". [1] By 1960thirty-five years after the novel's original publicationthe book was selling 100,000 copies per year. [137] He had already written 18,000 words for his novel by mid-1923 but discarded most of his new story as a false start. [27] He visited Ginevra at Westover until her expulsion for flirting with a crowd of young male admirers from her dormitory window. [381], Because of such themes, scholars assert that Fitzgerald's fiction captures the perennial American experience, since it is a story about outsiders and those who resent themwhether such outsiders are newly-arrived immigrants, the nouveau riche, or successful minorities. Updated on August 02, 2019. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896, in St. Paul, Minnesota, to parents Edward and Mary (Mollie) McQuillan Fitzgerald. During this period, he became friends with writer Gertrude Stein, bookseller Sylvia Beach, novelist James Joyce, poet Ezra Pound and other members of the American expatriate community in Paris,[158] some of whom would later be identified with the Lost Generation. 00:00. "[289], After Fitzgerald's death, writers such as John Dos Passos assayed Fitzgerald's gradual progression in literary quality and posited that his uncompleted fifth novel The Last Tycoon could have been Fitzgerald's greatest achievement. His literary influences reflect that maxim, in that the writing he most admired and the work he most often adapted for his own fiction were of lasting quality. My poems (10) Titles list Rain Before Dawn THE dull, faint patter in the drooping hours Drifts in upon my sleep and fills my hair With damp; the burden of the heavy air Fitzgerald's younger years. He had never, despite the flop of his play The Vegetable in 1923, quite given up on the idea of drama. At both St. Paul Academy (190810) and Newman School (191113), he tried too hard and made himself unpopular, but at Princeton University he came close to realizing his dream of a brilliant success. Though they loved these roles, they were frightened by them, too, as the ending of Fitzgeralds second novel, The Beautiful and Damned (1922), shows. [273] In retrospective reviews that followed after his death, literary critics such as Peter Quennell dismissed his magnum opus The Great Gatsby as merely a nostalgic period piece with "the sadness and the remote jauntiness of a Gershwin tune". [289] Although his peers eventually hailed him as possessing "the best narrative gift of the century," this narrative gift was not perceived as immediately evident in his earliest writings. [352], As Fitzgerald's writings made him "the outstanding aggressor in the little warfare" between "the flaming youth against the old guard,"[353] a number of social conservatives later rejoiced when he died. "[98], As Fitzgerald was one of the most celebrated novelists during the Jazz Age, many admirers sought his acquaintanceship. [344][345] Due to this thematic focus, his works became a sensation among college students, and the press depicted him as the standard-bearer for "youth in revolt". [236], Soon after, a lonely Fitzgerald began a relationship with nationally syndicated gossip columnist Sheilah Graham, his final companion before his death. He is unconcerned about the sweating and suffering of the nether herd". The chaos of World War I left America in a state of distress, and the generation that fought the war turned to profligate living to recompense. [225], By that same year, Zelda's intense suicidal mania necessitated her extended confinement at the Highland Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina. [327], Due to this change, although Fitzgerald showed a mastery of "verbal nuance, flexible rhythm, dramatic construction and essential tragi-comedy" in Tender Is the Night,[289] many reviewers dismissed the work for its disengagement with the political issues of the era. [135] He continued writing his third novel, which would eventually become his magnum opus The Great Gatsby. Exactly how Gatsby made his fortune is not clear but it is clear that he is or was involved in some illegal business. [354] Mere weeks after Fitzgerald's death in 1940, 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 the boat and wanted the world to drop everything and sit down and bawl with them. The story follows Stahr's rise to power in . [245] After visiting several bookstores, he realized they had stopped carrying his works. [133] These details would inspire Fitzgerald in creating his next work, The Great Gatsby. [204] Hemingway and others argued that such criticism stemmed from superficial readings of the material and from Depression-era America's reaction to Fitzgerald's status as a symbol of Jazz Age excess. As Great Writers Inspire notes, they immediately began living beyond their means, paying for lavish houses and expensive dinners, drinking and dancing . Although he completed four novels and more than 150 short stories in his lifetime, he is perhaps best remembered for his third novel, The Great Gatsby (1925). [235], Estranged from Zelda, Fitzgerald attempted to reunite with his first love Ginevra King when the wealthy Chicago heiress visited Hollywood in 1938. Eliot, he was considered a member of the "Lost Generation," the 1920s expatriate community in post-war Paris.In 1925, Fitzgerald published his most famous novel, The Great Gatsby, which is still widely read today. "There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice." 4. [c][54] Although Fitzgerald did not initially intend to marry Zelda,[55] the couple gradually viewed themselves as informally engaged, although Zelda declined to marry him until he proved financially successful. Scott Fitzgerald in "Echoes of the Jazz Age" (1931)[92], Living in luxury at the Biltmore Hotel in New York City,[93] the newlywed couple became national celebrities, as much for their wild behavior as for the success of Fitzgerald's novel. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. [217] Beginning that year, Fitzgerald mocked himself as a Hollywood hack through the character of Pat Hobby in a sequence of 17 short stories. The novel's success allowed him to marry Zelda and made him a celebrity at the age of 23. . His last meal consisted of a pastrami sandwich from the nearby Greenblatt's Deli. [4] His father, Edward Fitzgerald, descended from Irish and English ancestry,[5] and had moved to Minnesota from Maryland after the American Civil War to open a wicker-furniture manufacturing business. "[193] Throughout the luncheon, she manifested signs of mental distress. [69] While Prohibition-era New York City was experiencing the burgeoning Jazz Age, Fitzgerald felt defeated and rudderless: two women had rejected him in succession; he detested his advertising job; his stories failed to sell; he could not afford new clothes, and his future seemed bleak. Our editors will review what youve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. [120] When Truex replied in the affirmative, Fitzgerald fled to the nearest bar. Then he lost Ginevra and flunked out of Princeton. [279] Despite its publication nearly a century ago, the work continues to be cited by scholars as relevant to understanding contemporary America. On September 24, 1896, Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born into an Irish Catholic family in St. Paul, Minnesota. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Rich Boy" (1926)[356], A recurrent theme in F. Scott Fitzgerald's fiction is the psychic and moral gulf between the average American and wealthy elites. And according to biographers, his "crazy" wife Zelda seems to be his victim, not the other way round. Half the time he thought of himself as the heir of his fathers tradition, which included the author of The Star-Spangled Banner, Francis Scott Key, after whom he was named, and half the time as straight 1850 potato-famine Irish. As a result he had typically ambivalent American feelings about American life, which seemed to him at once vulgar and dazzlingly promising. The Great Gatsby is today widely considered the great American novel.. The Red Cross distributed the novel to prisoners in Japanese and German POW camps. . [221], Fitzgerald's deteriorating health, chronic alcoholism, and financial woes made for difficult years in Baltimore. No one objected; on the contrary, it was pointed out that the windows were French and ideally suited for jumping, which seemed to cool his ardor.". 'Zelda and I drank with them. [67], With dreams of a lucrative career in New York City dashed, Fitzgerald could not convince Zelda that he would be able to support her, and she broke off the engagement in June 1919. [418], Beyond adaptations of his works, Fitzgerald himself has been portrayed in dozens of books, plays, and films. [116] That year, Fitzgerald released an anthology of eleven stories entitled Tales of the Jazz Age. [171] Soon after, Zelda threw herself down a flight of marble stairs at a party because Fitzgerald, engrossed in talking to Isadora Duncan, ignored her. Zelda broke their engagement, and, after an epic drunk, Fitzgerald retired to St. Paul, Minnesota, to rewrite for the second time a novel he had begun at Princeton. In the spring of 1920 it was published, he married Zelda, and. Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald was one of the most celebrated figures of the 1920s. "[290] they nonetheless contended that his fiction lacked engagement with the salient socio-political issues of his time,[383] and he lacked a conscious awareness of how to use his considerable talent as an author. [40] Attempting to rebound from his rejection by Ginevra, a lonely Fitzgerald began dating a variety of young Montgomery women. and the family moved back to St. Paul in 1908 to live off of his mother's . [281] In 1952, 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 prompts comparisons to the Jazz Age itself. I thought all I needed anywhere in the world to make a living was a pencil and paper. [395][396] While writing This Side of Paradise, Fitzgerald quoted verbatim entire letters sent to him by his Catholic mentor, Father Sigourney Fay. His private life, with his wife, Zelda, in both America and France, became almost . [170] Fitzgerald decided to have sex with a prostitute to prove his heterosexuality. [283], Decades after his death, Fitzgerald's childhood Summit Terrace home in St. Paul became a National Historic Landmark in 1971. [222] By 1935, alcoholism disrupted Fitzgerald's writing and limited his mental acuity. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.". July 30, 2012. [209] In 1933, 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. By this time, the field of literature had greatly changed due to the onset of the Great Depression, and once popular writers such as Fitzgerald and Hemingway who wrote about upper-middle-class lifestyles were now disparaged in literary periodicals whereas so-called "proletarian novelists" enjoyed general applause. [80] The work catapulted Fitzgerald's career as a writer. She, plus various relatives, museums, Yale University and collectors own the dolls included in the book. [213] The cost of his opulent lifestyle and Zelda's medical bills quickly caught up, placing him in constant debt. He met sports columnist Ring Lardner,[99] journalist Rebecca West,[100] cartoonist Rube Goldberg,[101] actress Laurette Taylor,[101] actor Lew Fields,[102] comedian Ed Wynn,[102] and many others. F. Scott Fitzgerald's first novel, 1920's This Side of Paradise, was an instant hit and bestseller. [176] The Hollywood life's novelty quickly faded for the Fitzgeralds, and Zelda frequently complained of boredom. [374], Consequently, many of Fitzgerald's characters are defined by their sense of "otherness". [230] He saw Zelda for the last time on a 1939 trip to Cuba. [403] In her story, she is trapped in a loveless marriage with a wealthy man, yet still pines for Fitzgerald, a former lover from her past. [31] Her imperious father Charles Garfield King purportedly told a young Fitzgerald that "poor boys shouldn't think of marrying rich girls. Both F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre had other sexual partners prior to their first meeting and courtship. Zelda suffered an even sadder fate, dying in a mental institution fire in . [256] On the night of December20, 1940, Fitzgerald and Graham attended the premiere of This Thing Called Love. [183] Fitzgerald returned to his fourth novel but proved unable to make any progress due to his alcoholism and poor work ethic. [60] Several of Fitzgerald's friends opposed the match, as they deemed Zelda ill-suited for him. [94] The couple relocated two blocks to the Commodore Hotel on 42nd Street where they spent half an hour spinning in the revolving door. [141] Zelda became infatuated with a French naval aviator, Edouard Jozan. American author of novels and short stories. Still aspiring to a lucrative career in literature, he wrote several short stories and satires in his spare time. "[312], Similar to Edith Wharton and Henry James, Fitzgerald's style often used a series of disconnected scenes to convey plot developments. 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