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The 1920s in america were known as the "Roaring '20s" and the Jazz Age, a period in the nation that glorified hard and fast living. Nobody personified the age or composed so descriptively about any of it better than F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), whose name became synonymous with the times after penning the epic The Great Gatsby. Together with his dazzling wife, Zelda, Fitzgerald was all too eager to experience the role. When his writing made them celebrities, these were celebrated by the nationwide press for being "young, seemingly rich, beautiful, and dynamic." While Scott used their marriage as materials in his novels, Zelda composed herself, and she also strove to become a ballerina. However, the Fitzgeralds scarcely outlasted the '20s. Their hard living remaining Fitzgerald, a notorious alcoholic, in illness by the '30s. Economically broke, he'd die of an enormous heart attack in 1940, where time Zelda possessed already suffered various mental diseases. Zelda died in a freak flame in 1948, both Fitzgeralds having burned out almost as quickly as that they had shined. Fitzgerald journeyed constantly, and one of his expatriate friends in Europe was none other than Ernest Hemingway, widely considered one of the very most influential American authors of the 20th century. Students are unlikely to leave high school without reading one of Hemingway's classics, especially The Sunshine Also Increases (1926), and they are usually launched to rudimentary details about Hemingway's eclectic life and controversial loss of life.
