F. SCOTT FITZGERALD published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. That same year he married Zelda Sayre and for the next decade the couple lived in New York, Paris, and on the Riviera. Fitzgerald’s novels include The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender Is the Night. He died at the age of forty-four while working on The Last Tycoon. ZELDA FITZGERALD was born in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1900. She and Scott had a daughter, Frances “Scottie” Fitzgerald. Zelda is the author of several short stories and novels, including Save Me the Waltz.
JACKSON R. BRYER is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Maryland. He has also edited the Fitzgerald-Maxwell Perkins correspondence.
CATHY W. BARKS teaches American literature at the University of Maryland.
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