This Side of Paradise

by Fitzgerald, F. Scott

• ISBN13: 9781439198988
• ISBN10: 1439198985
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-09-14
• Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER

Summary

Fitzgerald's debut novel, which established him as the golden boy of the Jazz Age, follows Amory Blaine as he grows up in post-World War I America.

Author Biography

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 and for the next decade the couple lived in New York, Paris, and on the Riviera. Fitzgerald’s masterpieces 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. Fitzgerald’s fiction has secured his reputation as one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century.