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Author: Francis Scott Fitzgerald

About the Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald is an American author of novels and short stories whose writing is exemplary for Jazz Age writing, a term he coined himself. He is also considered one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century. Fitzgerald is also considered a member of the “lost generation” of the 1920s. He wrote four novels: This Side of Heaven, The Beautiful, The Damned, The Great Gatsby, and The Soft Night, plus a fifth, unfinished, Merchant’s Last Love, which was published posthumously. He also wrote several short stories dealing with themes of youth, aging and despair. His novels were also represented in cinematic films, the most famous of which is The Great Gatsby in 2013.

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Fitzgerald’s second novel, a devastating portrait of Jazz Age excesses, is a largely autobiographical depiction of a glamorous, reckless Manhattan couple and their dizzying turn in tragedy. Published in the wake of This Side of Heaven, the story of Harvard-educated beauty man Anthony Patch and his stubborn wife, Gloria, is propelled by Fitzgerald’s intense romantic imagination, and shows a growing technical and emotional maturity. The Beautiful and Damned is a captivating moral tale, a sad meditation on love, marriage, money, and a sharp social bond. As Hortense Kalicher notes in her preface, “Although Fitzgerald can go in with cheerful youthful stories, it seems safe—when he cuts himself, she’ll bleed.”

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