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Significant Writers of The 1920s
The Jazz Age
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald born September 24, 1896 in St. Paul
Academic Probation; joined U.S. Army Wrote The Romantic Egotist in fear of
dying before accomplishing his dreams of literary success
End of war before he was deployed Moved to New York City in hopes of
finding a job and marrying Zelda Sayre
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald got an advertising job in New York City but quit and returned to St. Paul to rework his novel
The rewritten book, The Side of Paradise was published 1920
One week later Fitzpatrick and Zelda Sayre were married
One week later Fitzpatrick and Zelda Sayre married; they had one daughter, Frances Scott “Scottie” Fitzgerald in 1921
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald’s main source of income became short stories
1922 – The Beautiful and the Damned published
1924 – Fitzgeralds move to France; he writes The Great Gatsby, published 1925
Fitzgeralds’ lives descended into alcoholism and mental instability
1934 – Tender is the Night published
F. Scott Fitzgerald
1837 – Fitzgerald moves to Hollywood and becomes a scriptwriter; Zelda still in mental hospital
Falls in love with Sheilah Graham, a Hollywood Gossip Columnist
Lives with Graham; makes occasional visits to Zelda or Scottie
October 1939 – Fitzgerald begins writing The Last Tycoon
Fitzgerald dies December 21, 1940; Only half the novel completed
F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Everything about them suggested an irresistible quality of both nostalgia and regret for the American past. Better than anyone else, Scott Fitzgerald gave voice to this in the elegies that round out The Great Gatsby” (Kazin 15).
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Miller Hemingway born July 21, 1899
Hemingway began his writing in high school
Served as ambulance driver in Italian Army in World War I
Nurse Agnes van Kurowsky Returned the United States and
began a job at the Toronto Star Hemingway met Hadley
Richardson; they married and moved to ParisErnest Miller
Hemingway
Hemingway became part of “The Lost Generation” in Paris
1923 – Hemingway and Hadley have a son, John Hadley Nicanor Hemingway
October 1926 – The Sun Also Rises is published
Hemingway and Pauline Pfeiffer have an affair resulting in a divorce between Hadley and Hemingway
Pauline became pregnant o they decided to move back to America where they lived in Key West, Florida
Ernest Miller Hemingway
Hemingway spent much of his time hunting, bull fighting, and deep sea fishing
When reporting on Spanish Civil War in 1937, Hemingway met Martha Gellhorn who would be his third wife after the fall-out of his marriage with Pfeiffer
The two moved to Havana, Cuba Hemingway serves in World War II
Ernest Miller Hemingway
While in service, Hemingway meets Mary Welsh, who he will marry after a divorce with Martha Gellhorn
1952 – The Old man and the Sea published
1954 – Nobel Prize for Literature Retired to Idaho after writing A Moveable
Feast In retirement, Hemingway's mental and
physical state steadily worsened July 2, 1961 – Hemingway committed
suicide Ernest Miller Hemingway
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce born February 2, 1882 in Dublin, Ireland
Evidence of talent at young age; taught himself Norwegian to read Henrik Ibsen’s plays
Left Ireland for Paris in hopes of working with medicine
Met Nora Barnacle in Ireland and they were married
They moved to Croatian city of Pula and then to Trieste in Italy
James Joyce
Joyce taught English and learned Italian, the seventeenth language he could speak
Joyce and Barnacle had to children, Georgio and Lucia
1914 – Dubliners is published 1916 – Portrait of the Artist as a
Young Man published 1922 – Ulysses is published: Joyce’s
most famous novel
James Joyce
1939 – Follow up novel Finnegans Wake
Suffered from eye issues; died January 13, 1941
James Joyce
http://library.sc.edu/spcoll/fitzgerald/biography.html
http://www.biography.com http://www.britannica.com Bright Book of Life: American Novelists
& Storytellers from Hemingway to Mailer By Alfred Kazin
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