American literature: Fitzgerald, Steinbeck, Salinger
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD (1869-1940)
J. STEINBECK (1902-1968)
J. D. SALINGER (1919-1920)
Family & Love Life
Overview
His life
Love life
Health
Zelda Sayre (wife)
Rejected proposal, but married in 1921
Ginevra King (first love)
Drinking problem since college
Tuberculosis + internal bleeding
3 heart attacks
Died from the 3rd one
Army > Princeton University
Irish roots
Married 3 times
2 kids with Claire Douglas
Adored young, innocent women
American writer
Mostly known for the Cather in the Rye
Early Life
Born into a wealthy jewish family
Dropped out of school a lot
Finished the Columbia University School of General Studies
Served in the army 1942-'44
Work
A huge dream of his was to be published in the New Yorker Magazine
Finally, his dream became true, his works started appearing in the magazine
In 1951, the Cather in the Rye was published
American writer
Close friends with Ed Ricketts
Married 3 times, had 2 sons
His first novel Cup of Gold (1929)
His first famous book Tortilla Flat (1935)
Of Mice and Men (1937)
The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
Won the California Commonwealth Club's Gold Medal
Turned into a movie in 1942
Adapted as a film in 1939
Caused a lot of controversy
Adapted as a film
Won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1940
The best-selling book of 1939
Won the National Book Reward in 1940 for being favorite fiction book of 1939
Banned from American public schools and libraries for 3 years
Nobel Prize
"The Side of Paradise" (1920)
"The Beautiful and Damned" (1922)
"The Great Gatsby" (1925)
"Tender is the Night" (1934)
Consists of 3 parts
Lives and morality of WW I youth
Got famous and rich after this novel
Based on marriage with Zelda
Café society + American Eastern Elite
"Jazz Age" and early 1920s
Roaring twenties + the American Dream
Takes place in fictional towns
Very autobiographical
Inspired by Fitzgerald's and Zelda's lives
Rise and fall of a young psychiatrist and his wife