They were still in the happier stage of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered. They both seemed to have arrived there with an extraordinary innocence as though a series of pure accidents had driven them together, so many accidents that at last they were forced to conclude that they were for each other. They had arrived with clean hands, or so it seemed, after no traffic with the merely curious and clandestine.

He is also the namesake of the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Zelda accepted his marriage proposal but after some time and despite working at an advertising firm and writing short stories he was unable to convince her that he would be able to support her leading her to break off the engagement. Army.

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24 1896 – December 21 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories whose works are the paradigm writings of the Jazz Age a term he coined himself. In 1958 his life from 1937–1940 was dramatized in Beloved Infidel. The Great Gatsby has been the basis for numerous films of the same name spanning nearly 90 years; 1926 1949 1974 2000 and an upcoming 2013 adaptation.