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What is F. Scott Fitzgerald's full name?: Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
Where does F. Scott Fitzgerald's name come from?: The namesake and second cousin three times removed of the author of the National Anthem.
What were the dominant influences of F. Scott Fitzgerald?: aspiration, literature, Princeton, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, and alcohol.
Where and when was F. Scott Fitzgerald born?: St. Paul, Minnesota on September 24th, 1896.
During 1911-1913, what was Fitzgerald doing?: He was attending the Newman School, a Catholic prep in New Jersey.
When did Fitzgerald join the army?: 1917
When did Fitzgerald graduate from Princeton?: He didn't; he joined the army instead.
What did Fitzgerald write, convinced that he was going to die in war?: "The Romantic Egotist."
In June 1918, where was Fitzgerald stationed?: Camp Sheridan near Montgomery, Alabama.
Who did Fitzgerald meet in Camp Sheridan?: Zelda Sayre, his future bride.
When was Fitzgerald discharged from the army?: 1919.
Where did Fitzgerald go after he was discharged from the army?: New York City, hoping to gain enough money to marry Zelda.
What was Fitzgerald's "chief theme"?: according to my source, "aspiration idealism he regarded as defining American character"
Who is Fitzgerald's only child?: Francis Scott (Scottie) Fitzgerald.
When was Scottie Fitzgerald born?: October 1921.
What is one reason for F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife's estrangement?: She took riggerous ballet lessons, which damaged her health, as well as her marriage.
When was Zelda Fitzgerald's first breakdown? (one of many): April 1930
What was ironic about Fitzgerald and money?: "Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald did spend money faster than he earned it; the author who wrote so eloquently about the effects of money on character was unable to manage his own finances."
What is Zelda Fitzgerald's autobiographical novel that she wrote while in the hospital?: Save Me the Waltz.
What happened to Fitzgerald between the years of 1936-37?: He was ill, drunk, in debt, and couldn't write for money. In short, he was a mess. This is called "the crack up."
What happened to Scottie when she was fourteen?: She went into a boarding school, because Fitzgerald could not properly care for her.
When was This Side of Paradise published?: March 26th, 1920.
When did Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald first travel to Europe?: 1921.
Where did Fitzgerald meet Ernest Hemmingway?: Paris.
What is The Vegetable?: A play F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote for broadway.
What was interesting about F. Scott Fitzgerald and his drinking habits?: He was catagorized as an alcoholic, but wrote sober.
What is another theme for Fitzgerald?: Mutability or loss.
When was The Great Gatsby written?: The summer and fall of 1924, in France.
What is This Side of Paradise described as?: an epic.
What did Fitzgerald do to rewrite This Side of Paradise in 1919?: He quit his job to fully dedicate his time to the novel.
How old was Zelda when Fitzgerald met her?: Eighteen.
Where did Fitzgerald marry Zelda?: New York City.
Where did Zelda and Fitzgerald move to be closer to Broadway?: Great Neck, Long Island.
True or false: Fitzgerald wrote a screenplay for Hollywood that was very successful.: False: he wrote a screenplay, but it was not successful.
What was Fitzgerald's peak story fee for the Saturday Evening Post?: $4,000.
Where did the Fitzgeralds move in America to escape the distractions of France?: "Ellerslie," a mansion near Willmington, Delaware.
When did the Fitzgeralds move to "Ellerslie?": The spring of 1927.
What is Fitzgerald's peak fee, $4,000, in today's standards?: $40,000.
Where did Zelda Fitzgerald go in April 1930?: Prangins Clinic in Switzerland.
How long did Zelda stay in Prangins Clinic?: One year.
Where did Fitzgerald live while Zelda was getting treatment in Switzerland?: Various Swiss hotels.
What did the Fitzgeralds do in the fall of 1931?: They returned to America and rented a place to stay in Montgomery, Alabama.
When did Fitzgerald make his second unsuccessful trip to Hollywood?: 1931.
What were Fitzgerald's parents?: Catholics.
When did Fitzgerald write his first story?: 1909.
How old was Fitzgerald when he wrote his first story?: Thirteen.
What was Fitzgerald's first story about?: It was a detective story, published in the St. Paul Academy newspaper.
True or false: Fitzgerald's father, Edward, failed as a manufacturer of wicker furniture.: True.
What was Fitzgerald's mother's nickname?: Mollie.
Who was Fitzgerald's mother?: The daughter of an Irish immigrant, who became wealthy as a wholesale grocer in St. Paul, Minnesota.
What did Fitzgerald's father do after his failure in manufacturing wicker furniture?: He became a salesman for Proctor & Gamble in upstate New York.
What happened to Fitzgerald's father in 1908?: Proctor & Gamble dismissed him.
Who was Zelda Sayre?: The youngest daughter of an Alabama Supreme Court judge.
Where was Edward Fitzgerald from?: Maryland.
Edward Fitzgerald had an allegiance to a place. Where was this place?: The "old south," where he felt most at home with it's values.
What does This Side of Paradise trace?: The career aspirations and love disappointments of Amory Blaine.
What were two stories published in the magazine The Smart Set?: "May Day" and "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz."
Who were the characters that Fitzgerald first wrote about commercially?: Strong, independent, American women.
What are two stories in which Fitzgerald wrote about strong, independent, American women?: "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" and "The Offshore Pirate."
How old was Fitzgerald when he published This Side of Paradise?: Twenty-four.
How long did Fitzgerald wait to marry Zelda after the publication of This Side of Paradise?: One week.
Who was Fitzgerald's agent in the fall/winter of 1919?: Harold Ober.
What was Fitzgerald's second novel?: The Beautiful and the Damned.
What is The Beautiful and the Damned about?: It is a naturalistic chronicle about the dissapation of Anthony and Gloria Patch.
Since Fitzgerald wrote for the Saturday Evening Post, he was regarded as what?: A "Post-writer."
In what did Fitzgerald write the following: "It was an age of miracles, it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of satire.": Echoes of the Jazz Age.
Who were two of Fitzgerald's college friends?: Edmund Wilson and John Peale Bishop.
What two Princeton magazines did Fitzgerald contribute to?: The Princeton Tiger and the Nassau Literary Magazine.
True or false: Fitzgerald graduated from Princeton in 1917.: False: he was on academic probation and unlikely to graduate. If he had, he would have been in the class of 1917. Instead, he joined the army.
What did Fitzgerald die of?: A heart attack.
When did Fitzgerald die?: December 21, 1940.
How did Zelda Fitzgerald die?: She died in a fire at Highland Hospital.
When did Zelda Fitzgerald die?: 1948.
Who did Fitzgerald fall in love with at the end of his life?: He fell in love with a movie columnist, Sheilah Graham. Fitzgerald had his fatal heart attack in her appartment on December 21st, 1940.
In what did Fitzgerald receive his only screen credit for adapting, in Hollywood?: The Three Comrades. (1938)

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