This Side of Paradise
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This Side of Paradise is the 1920 debut novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. It examines the lives and morality of carefree American youth at the dawn of the Jazz Age. Its protagonist, Amory
Dust jacket cover of the first edition
Fitzgerald among Princeton junior classmen in 1917. (Top row, third from the left)
Princeton's gothic towers glimpsed by Amory in the final pages.
Max Perkins threatened to resign from Scribner's if the company did not publish Fitzgerald's novel. "If we're going to turn down the likes of Fitzgerald," Perkins stated, "I will lose all interest in publishing books."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, widely known as F. Scott Fitzgerald or simply Scott Fitzgerald, was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is most notable for his novels depicting th
This Side of Paradise
…This Side of Paradise is the 1920 debut novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. It examines the lives and morality of carefree American youth at the dawn of the Jazz Age. Its protagonist, Amory Blaine, is a handsome middle-class…
Fitzgerald in 1921
Portrait of Scott and Zelda by Alfred Cheney Johnston, 1923
Passport photos of the Fitzgeralds, 1923
H. L. Mencken believed that Fitzgerald's career as a novelist was in jeopardy because of his wife's mental illness.