The Great Gatsby

Peacock Books

2017

Paperback

Atlantic Publishers & Distributors Pvt Ltd

Fiction

T

9788124800706

Fiction Books

FIC004000

General Fiction Books

01

8124800707

English

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1886-1940) is best known for his novels and short stories which chronicle the excesses of America’s “Jazz Age” during the 1920s. He was born on 24 September, 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. America, at the time of Fitzgerald’s birth, was in transition from the era of the frontier to a new age of growing cities, rapid technological advance, and the rise of what were to become the giant corporations of the twentieth century. As his surname suggests, he was from the Irish-American stock, the family originating in Maryland. A distant relative of his on his father’s side, Francis Scott Key, after whom he was given his third Christian name, had written the patriotic American anthem ‘The Star-spangled Banner’. Fitzgerald was sent to the East Coast at the age of 15 to attend the Newman Academy in Hackensack, New Jersey. He entered Princeton University in 1913.