The Cut glass Bowl and other Stories [antikvár]

A Note About the AuthorFrancis Scott Fitzgerald was born in St Paul, Minnesota in theUSA on 24th September 1896. He grew up to be a handsome man, with blond hair and green eyes.When he was a young boy Scott Fitzgerald wanted two things - to go to a good school and to play football. In 1913, when he was 17, he went to Princeton University but he was not tall or strong enough to play in the football team. He wrote plays and short stories while he was at university but he did not finish his studies because he joined the US Army in 1917. In 1919, he left the army and went to New York.In 1920, he married Zelda Sayre but their marriage was not a happy one. Zelda was mentally ill and she spent many years in hospitals. His unhappy marriage made Fitzgerald drink too much and this alcoholism eventually led to his death.Scott Fitzgerald wrote five novels: This Side of Paradise (1920), The Beautiful and Damned (1922), The Great Gatsby (1925), Tender is the Night (1934) and The Last Tycoon. He died of a heart-attack before he finished The Last Tycoon. He wrote six volumes of short stories and The Crack-up, a magazine story about his own life.Between 1924 and 1926, Fitzgerald lived in France. He met the film star, Rudolph Valentino and he became a friend of the writer, Ernest Hemingway. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald had many friends and most of the money Fitzgerald got from writing was spent on parties and having fun. The Fitzgeralds could not save money. As soon as they had any money they would spend it. Many times Fitzgerald had to borrow money from his publisher to pay his debts.In 1927, Scott Fitzgerald returned to America and started working in Hollywood. He worked for the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film company, writing stories and scripts for films. He had many friends who were writers, film-directors and film-stars but