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Since then a few short stories, the script of a moving picture or two, were all that came from his typewriter.

This same ability was shown in his first book and its hero, Amory Blaine, became as much a symbol of Mr. Fitzgerald's own generation as, two years later, Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt was to become a symbol of another facet of American culture.

War came along in and Fitzgerald quit Princeton to join the Army. At the Newman School, in Lakewood, N. When he entered Princeton in he had already decided upon a career as writer of musical comedies. Fitzgerald's school of writersit received critical acclaim.

He was born Sept. With the skill of a reporter and ability of an artist he captured the essence of a period when flappers and gin and "the beautiful and the damned" were the symbols of the carefree madness of an age. Every Saturday he would hurry over to the Officers' Club and there "in a room full of smoke, conversation and rattling newspapers" he wrote a ,word novel on the consecutive week-ends of three months.

In it Mr. Fitzgerald was at his best, which was, according to John Chamberlain, his "ability to catch the flavor of a period, the fragrance of a night, a snatch of old song, in a phrase. There has been much ado about The Great Gatsby in recent months, for obvious reasons.

Scott Fitzgerald, novelist, short story writer and scenarist, died at his Hollywood home yesterday.

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The promise of his brilliant career was never fulfilled. Fitzgerald in his life and writings epitomized "all the sad young men" of the post-war generation. Keywords: F. Scott Fitzgerald, queer theory, “The Rich Boy”, The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night.

And with that ado has come a resurgence of interest in Nick Carraway’s unclear sexual orientation. F. Scott Fitzgerald,June 4. All his other books and many of his short stories notably "The Beautiful and the Damned" had this same quality.

Photo: Carl van Vechten Even with knowledge of Gerald’s sexuality, Fitzgerald used the Murphys as a basis for Dick and Nicole Diver in Tender Is the Night, where Dick is a charismatic, heterosexual, Oxford-educated doctor who attracts female attention nearly everywhere he goes.

Overall, the inclusion of these characters does not only serve to complicate our understanding of primary themes in Fitzgerald’s writing, but also further testifies to the presence of queer people and behavior throughout history. Roughly, his own career began and ended with the Nineteen Twenties.

He spent most of his first year writing an operetta for the Triangle Club and consequently "flunked" in several subjects. His age was He suffered a heart attack three weeks ago. Only six others came between it and his last, which, not without irony, he called "Taps at Reveille.

The best of his books, the critics said, was "The Great Gatsby.

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He served as a second lieutenant and then as a first lieutenant in the Forty-fifth and Sixty-seventh Infantry Regiments and then as aide de camp to Brig. Paul, Minn. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald he was named after the author of the National Anthem, a distant relative of his mother's was a stocky, good-looking young man with blond hair and blue eyes who might have stepped from the gay pages of one of his own novels.

In his sophomore year he was a "chorus girl" in his own show. He called it "The Romantic Egotist. He had to spend the Summer studying.