F · Scott Fitzgerald.ppt

F · Scott Fitzgerald Life and career of Fitzgerald Fitzgerald’s Works Writing Style Life and career of Fitzgerald Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896 –1940) was born in a merchant family in Sao Paulo of Minnesota. He became interested in writing at middle school. During he studied at Princeton University, he was also eager to write articles for the publication and drama’s group of school. In 1917, he discontinued his studies and joined the army. There, he began to write his novels. Life and career of Fitzgerald In 1918, Fitzgerald met the “golden girl”, Zelda Sayre, in Montgomery Alabama. After Fitzgerald published his first novel and got great success, Zelda and he married in New Yorks St Patricks Cathedral one week later. Zelda impact his whole life, because many heroines came from Zelda in his novels. He was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works were the paradigm writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the Lost Generation of the 1920s. Life and career of Fitzgerald He was also one of American famous writers(编剧). In 1922, his novel named Beautiful and the Damned(美女和被诅咒的人) was made into a film. Entering the 1930s, he was in Hollywood as a screenwriter. He had created and adapted films such as Gone with the Wind(乱世佳人) and Last Time I Saw Paris(我最后一次看见巴黎). Fitzgerald had been an alcoholic since his college days, and became notorious during the 1920s for his extraordinarily heavy drinking, leaving him in poor health by the late 1930s. Fitzgerald had died of a massive heart attack finally. Fitzgerald’s Works Fitzgerald finished four novels, This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender is the Night and his most famous, The Great Gatsby. A fifth, unfinished novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon was published posthumously. Fitzgerald also wrote many short stories that treat themes of youth and promise alon