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Shades of the Jazz Age: Fitzgerald's Long Island

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From: International Herald Tribune
Date: 20050414
Author:Patrick J. Lyons

Patrick J. Lyons
International Herald Tribune
04-14-2005
Few places that F. Scott Fitzgerald inhabited over a short and shallow-rooted life infused his writing the way Long Island, New York, did. Just as his literary imagination distilled the 1920s into the Jazz Age and captured the hectic melancholy of the Lost Generation, so too did Fitzgerald transmute the mansions and millionaires of the North Shore into the mythic, splendid, doomed Gold Coast. Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, lived on the island only briefly, from October 1922 to May 1924, in a house at 6 Gateway Drive, ...

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