A Favourite Son of St. Paul
Today regarded as a titan of American literature, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1894-1940) was a St. Paul native and is commemorated there by a statue and a downtown theatre that carries his name. He achieved fame during the 1920s with his novels that captured the Jazz Age zeitgeist, but his fortunes faltered during the following decade in the wake of his wife Zelda’s mental illness and an unsuccessful move to become a Hollywood scriptwriter. A struggle with alcoholism led to Fitzgerald’s early death at the age of 44.
A Favourite Son of St. Paul
Today regarded as a titan of American literature, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1894-1940) was a St. Paul native and is commemorated there by a statue and a downtown theatre that carries his name. He achieved fame during the 1920s with his novels that captured the Jazz Age zeitgeist, but his fortunes faltered during the following decade in the wake of his wife Zelda’s mental illness and an unsuccessful move to become a Hollywood scriptwriter. A struggle with alcoholism led to Fitzgerald’s early death at the age of 44.