ISBN: 9780008371814
Imprint: CollinsUK
On Sale: Feb 25, 2020
List price: $6.5
No of pages: 224
Trim Size: 4.350 in (w) x 7.000 in (h) x 1.200 in (d)
BISAC 1: JUVENILE FICTION / Classics
BISAC 2: EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Secondary
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Biography
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) is regarded as one of the greatest American authors of the 20th century. His short stories and novels are set in the American ‘Jazz Age’ of the Roaring Twenties and include This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender Is the Night, The Great Gatsby, The Last Tycoon, and Tales of the Jazz Age.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Biography
F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, in 1896, attended Princeton University in 1913, and published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. That same year he married Zelda Sayre, and he quickly became a central figure in the American expatriate circle in Paris that included Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway. He died of a heart attack in 1940 at the age of forty-four.
Collins GCSE
Biography
Alexandra Melville is a writer and educator. Formerly a Head of English, she has taught English at sixth form and secondary schools in London. She has examined for AQA GCSE English and has written educational resources for Fuel Theatre, the British Library and HarperCollins.
