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作家史考特．费兹杰罗 (F.
Scott Fitzgerald) 出生
1896年9月24日
人们通常都会问小说作家这个问题：「你的角色拥有多少你的特质？」对作家史考特．费兹杰罗，也就是大亨小传 (The
Great Gatsby) 的作者来说，答案是「很多」。费兹杰罗于1896年9月24日出生在明尼苏达州的圣保罗，他最为人所知的就是他对「爵士时代」 (Jazz
Age，1920年代) 的描述，而那也是他所成长的年代。史考特的名字是以远房亲戚法兰西斯．史考特．凯伊 (Francis
Scot Key) 的名字来命名的，法兰西斯也就是美国国歌「星条旗永不落」 (The
Stat-Spangled Banner) 的作者。费兹杰罗在圣保罗从小就被以美国贵族的养成方式培养长大，但是他写作的主要动力却来自高度浪漫的想像。
Fiction writers are often asked, "How much of you is in your characters?" For writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby, it was a lot. Born September 24, 1896, in St. Paul, Minnesota, Fitzgerald was famous for his depictions of the Jazz Age (the 1920s) in which he thrived. Named for his distant cousin, Francis Scott Key, author of "The Star-Spangled Banner," he was brought up as an American aristocrat in St. Paul, but he was also driven by a highly charged, romantic imagination.
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