F. Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota. He attended Princeton University before dropping out in 1913. His first three novels (This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and the Damned, and The Great Gatsby) were published in 1920, 1922, and 1925 respectively. This time period was important because it was an era known as the Roaring Twenties. This time period was celebrated with a flourishing American economy and happiness to most of the people who lived in the United States at the time. Zelda, Fitzgerald’s wife, was driven mad due to her jealousy of her husband’s success (History.com, n.d.). Tender Is the Night was another novel written by Fitzgerald, this time during the Great Depression, a time when the American economy was crippled and …show more content…
He had begun writing another novel titled The Last Tycoon when he died of a heart attack. Fitzgerald is depicted as a very influential author of his time and for all time.
Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899 in Cicero (Oak Park), Illinois to Clarence and Grace Hemingway. After graduating from high school, Hemingway worked for the Kansas City Star. Hemingway served as an ambulance driver for the Italian Army during World War I. This granted him the Italian Silver Medal of Bravery, although he was injured and forced to reside in a hospital in Milan where he had an important encounter. Once in Milan, Ernest met and proposed to a nurse by the name of Agnes von Kurowsky. Kurowsky accepted this proposal, but later left him for another man. This experience would serve as a foundation for Hemingway’s novel A Farewell to Arms. After he returned to the United States in 1920, Hemingway met Hadley Richardson, who would become his first wife. After they married, the newlyweds moved overseas to Paris. While in Paris, Hemingway met many influential writers and artists of “The Lost Generation.” These such individuals included F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound,