FrancisScottFitzgerald弗兰茨.ppt

Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Life and Carrer
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Occupation : novelist, short story writer, poet
Nationality: American
Genres: Modernism
Literary movement : Lost Generation
Signature
He was born in 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota to an upper middle class Irish Catholic family, which was considered socially prominent and genteelly poor.
Childhood
His parents, both practicing Catholics, sent Scott to two Catholic schools. He became intrested in writing at middle school. His first literary effort, a detective story, was published in a school newspaper when he was 13 at St. Paul Academy.
When he was 16, he was expelled from St. Paul Academy for neglecting his studies.
He entered Princeton University in 1913. There he became friends with future critics and writers Edmund Wilson and John Peale Bishop, and wrote for the Princeton Triangle Club and the Princeton Tiger .
Princeton University
Zelda Fitzgerald
In 1917, he discontinued his studies and joined the army. There, he began to write his novels.
In 1918, Fitzgerald met the “golden girl”, Zelda Sayre, in Montgomery Alabama. After Fitzgerald published his first novel and got great ess, Zelda and he married in New York's St Patrick's Cathedral one week later and and together they embarked on a rich life of endless parties.
Although Fitzgerald's passion lay in writing novels, only his first novel sold well enough to support the opulent lifestyle that he and Zelda adopted as New York celebrities. Because of this lifestyle, as well as the bills from Zelda's medical care when they came, Fitzgerald was constantly in financial trouble and often required loans from his literary agent and his editor.
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Fitzgerald began working on his fourth novel during the late 1920s but was sidetracked by financial difficulties that necessitated his mercial short stories, and by the schizophrenia that struck Zelda in 1930. Her emotional health remained fragile for the rest of her life. In