McInerney has often claimed that Fitzgerald was the most important influence on his work.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald married Zelda Sayre in 1920. Both wrote fiction, and Zelda suffered all her life from the discrepancy in their fame and success.
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In Wolfe's novel "You Can't Go Home Again", the character Hunt Conroy is based on F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Schulberg's novel is based partly on his adventures in Hollywood in the late 1930s with his fellow screenwriter F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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During his Hollywood years, Fitzgerald worked anonymously on the screenplay for the film of "Gone With the Wind".
Fitzgerald was such an admirer of Joyce that, when he met him at a dinner party in 1928, he offered to leap out of a fourth-floor window as proof of his feeling.
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"Thus I take my leave of my lost city. Seen from the ferry boat in early morning, it no longer whispers of fantastic success and eternal youth....All is lost save memory."
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Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota and attended prep school, then Princeton University. ("I was always the poorest boy at a rich man's school," he claimed.) He was a lackluster student; when he dropped out to enlist in the army during World War I, he was on academic probation. The armistice was signed before Fitzgerald could see service, and he was discharged in 1919. He began writing THIS SIDE OF PARADISE, based on his Princeton years, when he was 21, and was 24 when it was published. T more...
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09/24/1896 St. Paul, Minnesota, Great Lakes States, United States,
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A commentary on the wastefulness of youth with too much money, intertwined with details from Fitzgerald's life. Definitely not as good as The Great Gatsby or This Side of Paradise, but worth reading. The first 200 pages were slow reading, but the story picks up towards the end. I was left with a hollow and empty feeling after reading it - this book certainly does not inspire faith in humanity.
