![]() Fitzgerald died of a heart attack on December 21, 1940. Deep in debt because of their ritzy lifestyle, the Fitzgeralds began to spiral into alcoholism and mental illness. Fitzgerald published several more novels, including Tender is the Night (1933), but none matched the success of his first. The Fitzgeralds returned to the United States in 1927. Though now considered his masterpiece, the novel sold only modestly. In 1924, the couple moved to Paris, where Fitzgerald began work on The Great Gatsby. Though now considered his masterpiece, the novel sold only modestly. The publication of his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920, made Fitzgerald a literary star. The publication of his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920, made Fitzgerald a literary star. ![]() He returned to New York to pursue fame and fortune. On base in Alabama in 1918, he met and fell in love with Zelda Sayre, who refused to marry him unless he could support her. In 1917, Princeton put Fitzgerald on academic probation. Scott Fitzgerald grew up in Minnesota, attended a few private schools (where his performance was mediocre), and went to Princeton University. ![]() It must be round about that date, since he was fairly sure that his age was thirty-nine, and he believed that he had been born in 1944 or 1945 but it was never possible nowadays to pin down any date within a year or two.F. To begin with, he did not know with any certainty that this was 1984. A sense of complete helplessness had descended upon him. He dipped the pen into the ink and then faltered for just a second. Apart from very short notes, it was usual to dictate everything into the speak-write which was of course impossible for his present purpose. Actually he was not used to writing by hand. The pen was an archaic instrument, seldom used even for signatures, and he had procured one, furtively and with some difficulty, simply because of a feeling that the beautiful creamy paper deserved to be written on with a real nib instead of being scratched with an ink-pencil. Winston fitted a nib into the penholder and sucked it to get the grease off. This was not illegal (nothing was illegal, since there were no longer any laws), but if detected it was reasonably certain that it would be punished by death, or at least by twenty-five years in a forced-labour camp. The thing that he was about to do was to open a diary. ![]()
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