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The Other Side of Paradise; F. Scott Fitzgerald Was Born 100 Years Ago Today. In Death, He Became Much Larger Than Life.

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19960924
Author:Henry Allen

F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose 100th birthday we celebrate today, is something that happens to you when you're 16, like a driver's license. "I've just read `The Great Gatsby,' " I said to my father in 1957.

He looked up from his magazine and his highball and nodded with the provisional earnestness of a parent who tried to support enthusiasm for its own sake. He had been at Princeton in the late '20s, a decade after Fitzgerald left. For a few last moments before The Crash, he was one of Fitzgerald's "sad young men" amid the revelry -- he had heard Bix Beiderbecke, a prince of the Jazz Age, ...

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