Beautiful and Damned

F. Scott Fitzgeraldwas born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896, attended Princeton University, and published his first novel,This Side of Paradise,in 1920. That same year he married Zelda Sayre, and the couple divided their time between New York, Paris, and the Riviera, becoming a part of the American expatriate circle that included Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and John Dos Passos. Fitzgerald was a major new literary voice, and his masterpieces includeThe Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby,andTender Is the Night.He died of a heart attack in 1940 at the age of forty-four, while working onThe Love of the Last Tycoon.For his sharp social insight and breathtaking lyricism, Fitzgerald stands as one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century.Fitzgerald, F. Scott is the author of 'Beautiful and Damned', published 1995 under ISBN 9780684801551 and ISBN 0684801558.