
The Fantastic Fitzgeralds
Stuff You Missed in History Class
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The Last Tycoon, by John Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald ushered in this whole new sort of genre of writing. Confessional writing, autobiographical essays. So that's sort of a sad last few years for Fitzgerald. He went back to Hollywood and had another go at screenwriting. But he also started a new romance too with a gossip columnist Sheila Graham. They kept the romance secret from Zelda, who was still in hospitals; they lived together. In November of 1940, he had a heart attack. And three weeks after that, heHad a second fatal heart attack, dying at only age 44.
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