Distinguished American Series [Ralph Bunche, Frank Lloyd Wright, Herman Melville, Edgar Alan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Emily Dickinson, Willa Cather] [English]

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Distinguished American Series [Ralph Bunche, Frank Lloyd Wright, Herman Melville, Edgar Alan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Emily Dickinson, Willa Cather] [English]

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SNAC Resource ID: 11616240

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940

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F. Scott Fitzgerald was born Sept. 24, 1896 in St. Paul Minnesota. He began writing while a student at Princeton University. He met his wife, Zelda, while serving in the US Army stationed in Alabama. His novel, This Side of Paradise, was published in 1920 and he became an instant success. He published he Great Gatsby in 1925. Fitzgerald died on December 21, 1940 of a heart attack at age 44 while living in Los Angeles and working for the film industry....

Melville, Herman, 1819-1891

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Herman Melville (b. Aug. 1, 1819, NY, NY–d. Sept. 28, 1891, NY, NY) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. His best known works include Typee (1846) and his whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851). His writing draws on his experience at sea as a common sailor, exploration of literature and philosophy, and engagement in the contradictions of American society in a period of rapid change. He developed a complex, baroque style; the vocabulary is rich and or...