Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896–1940) was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, educated at the Newman School and Princeton University, and commissioned in the army in 1917, though he never went overseas. This Side of Paradise (1920) made his name and allowed his marriage to Zelda Sayre of Montgomery, Alabama. He wrote The Beautiful and Damned (1922), The Great Gatsby (1925) and Tender Is the Night (1934), with many short stories, and died in Hollywood leaving The Last Tycoon unfinished.
“a new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken”
Amory Blaine, the only son of the wealthy, eccentric Beatrice Blaine and her ineffectual husband Stephen, is raised in luxury, travels with his mother, and grows up handsome, clever and sure of his own superiority. After two years in Minneapolis and a spell at a New England boarding school, where he is unpopular and then a football hero, he goes to Princeton, drawn by its glamour.
The Great Gatsby is narrated by Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner and war veteran who comes East in the spring of 1922 to learn the bond business and rents a small house in West Egg, on Long Island, beside the vast mansion of the mysterious Jay Gatsby. Across the bay in fashionable East Egg live Nick's cousin Daisy Buchanan and her husband Tom, a rich former Yale football player, along with Daisy's friend Jordan Baker, a champion golfer.
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