A Short Autobiography
1st Edition
Published on 2. August 2011
224 pages
978-1-4391-9907-7 (ISBN)
Description
A self-portrait of a great writer. A Short Autobiography charts Fitzgerald's progression from exuberant and cocky with "What I think and Feel at 25", to mature and reflective with "One Hundred False Starts" and "The Death of My Father." Compiled and edited by Professor James West, this revealing collection of personal essays and articles reveals the beloved author in his own words.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896. He attended Princeton University, joined the United States Army during World War I, and published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. That same year he married Zelda Sayre and for the next decade the couple lived in New York, Paris, and on the Riviera. Fitzgerald's novels include The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender Is the Night. He died at the age of forty-four while working on The Last Tycoon. Fitzgerald's fiction has secured his reputation as one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century.
Content
- Cover
- Description
- Back Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Textual Note
- Chapter 1: Who's Who-and Why (1920)
- Chapter 2: An Interview with Mr. Fitzgerald by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1920)
- Chapter 3: Three Cities (1921)
- Chapter 4: What I Think and Feel at 25 (1922)
- Chapter 5: Imagination-and a Few Mothers (1923)
- Chapter 6: How to Live on $36,000 a Year (1924)
- Chapter 7: How to Live on Practically Nothing a Year (1924)
- Chapter 8: "Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own!" (1924)
- Chapter 9: How to Waste Material-A Note on My Generation (1926)
- Chapter 10: Princeton (1927)
- Chapter 11: A Short Autobiography (with acknowledgements to Nathan) (1929)
- Chapter 12: Girls Believe in Girls (1930)
- Chapter 13: Salesmanship in the Champs-Élysées (1930)
- Chapter 14: The Death of My Father (unfinished) (1931)
- Chapter 15: One Hundred False Starts (1933)
- Author's House (1936)
- Afternoon of an Author (1936)
- An Author's Mother (1936)
- My Generation (1939/1940)
- Annotations
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
