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Background
Read this short
biography of FSF – but without perhaps one of the more interesting
details related to the novel – but more about that later -
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Read a pair of short
parallel biographies of FSF and his wife Zelda-
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You will find this a more
thorough biography of this pair of doomed lovers (no! not Romeo and Juliet!)
and even multiple fascinating additional links to people, cars, and trends of
the “roaring 20’s”, including a link to some of Zelda’s
art – see her Great Smokey mountains below (could these be a clue inside
her troubled mind?) –
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Questions on Background: 1. How old was FSF when he wrote his first best-selling novel – and what was its title? 2. In what way did FSF’s reputation impact critical recognition of him as an author? 3. Describe the major themes of his works
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Fitzgerald reading image. [Online Image} Available http://www.stpaul.lib.mn.us/reading/fitzgerald-vignettes.html, July 2006
Fitzgerald stamp image (Online Image) Available http://www.usps.com/images/stamps/96/welcome1.htm, July 2006
Fitzgerald and Zelda image (Online Image) Available www.mala.bc.ca/~lanes/english/hemngway/fitz.htm, July 2006
Zelda's painting image (Online Image) Available http://www.zeldafitzgerald.com/fitzgeralds/paintings/paintings.asp
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Scott Fitzgerald honored