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Advanced English, Book Two, Unit Ten The Sad Young Men-- Rod W. Horton and Herbert W . Edwards Menu Questions and Discussions Francis Scott Fitzgerald(1896-1940) Fitzgerald was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He went to Princeton University, but quit in 1917. In 1920, Fitzgerald published his first novel, This Side of Paradise. The novel deals with the post-World War I generation and their disillusioned lives. Later that year, Fitzgerald married Zelda Sayre, the quintessential 1920s flapper. Fitzgeralds writings grew in popularity, and his short stories especially were in high demand. These stories appeared in 4 books: Flappers and Philosophers (1920), Tales of the Jazz Age (1922), All the Sad Young Men (1926), and Taps at Reveille (1935). The Great Gatsby (1925), Fitzgeralds masterpiece, discusses the pursuit and disillusionment with the American Dream. Unfortunately, this novel sold poorly and Fitzgerald descended into alcoholism. Tender is the Night (1934) was an almost autobiographical novel about Fitzgeralds life with Zelda, and also sold poorly. The Last Tycoon (1941) remained unfinished at Fitzgeralds death. F. Scott Fitzgerald is now regarded as one the most important American authors of the 20th century. He chronicles the good and the bad and especially the disillusionment that defined America in the 1920s. The Sad Young Men or the Lost generation :refers to the same group of people. The name was first created by F. Scott Fitzgerald in his book All the Sad Young Men and second by Gertrude Stein. These names were applied to the disillusioned intellectuals and aesthetes of the years following the First World war, who rebelled against former ideals and values, but could replace only by despair or a cynical hedonism. The remark of Gertrude Stein ,’You are all a lost generation’, addressed to Hemingway, was used as a preface to the latter’s novel, The Sun Also Rises, which brilliantly describes an expatriate group typical of the ‘Lost gen