Francis Scott Fitzgerald

This Side of Paradise (Annotated) Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-F. Scott Fitzgerald developed his studies at Saint Paul Academy and Summit School in Saint Paul, Minnesota in 1908-1911, he began writing at this time. Later, he continued at Newman School, a private high school in Hackensack, New Jersey, in 1911-12. He began his university studies at Princeton University in 1913 within the 1917 promotion and it was there that he made friends with future critics and writers such as Edmundo Wilson or John Peale Bishop. Fitzgerald faced academic difficulties during his three-year university career, leaving it in 1917 to enlist in the United States Army when they entered World War I. However, the Great War ended shortly thereafter, being licensed without having arrived to embark for Europe. Fitzgerald had quickly written a novel titled The Romantic Egotist when he was in the military training camps of Camp Taylor, Louisville, Kentucky, and Camp Sheridan, Alabama. Despite having flattered her, an editor from New York's Charles Scribner's Sons, an editorial to which he presented his novel, rejected it. Fitzgerald met Zelda Sayre (1900-1948), the "top girl," according to Fitzgerald himself, of Montgomery, Alabama. The two made a commitment in 1919 and Fitzgerald moved to an apartment at 200 Claremont Avenue in New York to try to lay the groundwork for his relationship with Zelda. Even working for an advertising company and writing short stories,