F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896. He attended Princeton University, joined the United States Army during World War I, and published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. That same year he married Zelda Sayre of Montgomery, Alabama, and for the next decade the couple divided their time among New York, Paris, and the Riviera. Fitzgerald was a major new literary voice, and his masterpieces include his short stories, The Great Gatsby, and Tender Is the Night. He died in 1940 at the age of forty-four of a heart attack in Los Angeles, California, while working on The Love of the Last Tycoon. Fitzgerald’s fiction has secured his reputation as one of the most important, and beloved, American writers of the twentieth century.
Anne Margaret Daniel teaches literature at the New School University in New York City. She has published extensively on Fitzgerald and on Modernism since 1996. Anne Margaret lives in Manhattan and in upstate New York.