Scott fitzgerald brief biography of siren

(1896-1940)

Who Was F. Scott Fitzgerald?

F. Scott Fitzgerald was a short story writer and novelist considered one of the pre-eminent authors in the history of American literature due almost entirely to the enormous posthumous success of his third book, The Great Gatsby.

Read Book I - Chapter II - Portrait of the Siren of The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

In Greek mythology, sirens are creatures who live in the sea with beautiful appearances and voices that lead incoming sailors to their doom.

In a flashback to Daisy's premarital life, we see her in a world.

Scott Fitzgerald, expresses his worries about the publishing of The Great Gatsby.

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Perhaps the quintessential American novel, as well as a definitive social history of the Jazz Age, The Great Gatsby has become required reading for virtually every American high school student and has had a transportive effect on generation after generation of readers.

At the age of 24, the success of his first novel, This Side of Paradise, made Fitzgerald famous. One week later, he married the woman he loved and his muse, Zelda Sayre. However by the end of the 1920s Fitzgerald descended into drinking, and Zelda had a mental breakdown.

Following the unsuccessful Tender Is the Night, Fitzgerald moved to Hollywood and became a scriptwriter. He died of a heart attack in 1940, at age