什麼是費茲傑羅

Fitzgerald, F(rancis) Scott (Key)

美國小說及短篇故事作家。曾在普林斯頓大學學習，但因成績不好被退學。1920年與阿拉巴馬州的法官的女兒姍爾達.賽瑞（1900～1948）結婚。他的作品包括了早期的《人間天堂》（1920）、《漂亮的冤家》（1922）、故事集《爵士樂時代的故事》（1922）和《所有悲傷的年輕人》（1926）。他最傑出的作品《大亨小傳》（1925）是一部描述美國人財富和墮落的故事，被認為是20世紀最偉大的小說之一。1924年他和姍爾達移居法國，此後，由於妻子得精神病，他本人酗酒過度，生活極為不幸。1934年發表的《夜未央》。1937年費茲傑羅移居好萊塢從事電影劇本寫作；1939年開始寫作《最後大亨》，一部以好萊塢為背景，描寫美國生活的希望與理想的故事，但尚未完成，他便因心臟病去世。儘管當時流行的思潮是幻想破滅，實際上這是一個充滿希望與熱情的時代。而費茲傑羅比當時其他一切作家更能反映1920年代的時代精神與思想感情。他是1920年代美國最有代表性的作家。

1896～1940年

Fitzgerald, F(rancis) Scott (Key)

U.S. novelist and short-story writer. Born in St. Paul, Minn., he attended Princeton Univ., but dropped out with bad grades. In 1920 he married Zelda Sayre (1900-1948), daughter of a respected Alabama judge. His works, including the early novels This Side of Paradise (1920) and The Beautiful and Damned (1922) and the story collections Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) and All the Sad Young Men (1926), capture the Jazz Age's vulgarity and dazzling promise. His brilliant The Great Gatsby (1925), a story of American wealth and corruption, was eventually acclaimed one of the century's greatest novels. In 1924 Scott and Zelda became part of the expatriate community on the French Riviera, the setting of Tender Is the Night (1934). His fame and prosperity proved disorienting to them both, and he became seriously alcoholic. Zelda never fully recovered from a mental breakdown in 1932, and spent most of her remaining years in a sanitarium. In 1937 Scott moved to Hollywood to write film scripts; the experience inspired the unfinished The Last Tycoon (1941). He died of a heart attack at 44.