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Lit Test 1 Objective

Naturalism + Roaring Twenties

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~T.S. Eliot
Eliot Birthdate 1888
Eliot Birthplace St. Louis, Missouri
Eliot Family? Puritans
Eliot Education? Harvard in 1906, Masters in 1910; 1911-1914 doctorate in philosophy, but no diploma
Eliot in 1915? Moved permanently to England
Eliot move? 1915 permanently to England
Eliot Nobel Prize 1948
Eliot Death 1965
~Randall Jarrell dkj
Jarrell Birthdate? May 6, 1914
Jarrell Birthplace Nashville
Jarrell Move as infant 1915 to West Coast
Jarrell family conflict Parents divorce at 11, live with gparents
Jarrell education Business classes in high school; Vanderbilt
Jarrell job Taught Kenyon, UT @ Austin, hella magazines; 1942: Army Air Corps;UNC @ Greensboro (women's)
Jarrell adult conflict? Diagnosed with manic disorder
Jarrell death? 1965 Hit by car
Jarrell notable works? 1942: "Blood from a Stranger"; 1945: "Little Friends, Little Friends"
~Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald Family background Father Edmund to St. Paul, working class in wicker furniture; Mother: Francis McQuillan hella rich. pissed at father
Fitzgerald Birthname Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald Birthdate 1896
Fitzgerald growing up 1898-1908: East Coast, dad as salesamn. Mom hella pissed b/c no money. Dad fired in 1908. Move into Mcquillan mansion
Fitzgerald Education St. Paul's Academy (Catholic); Cardinal Newman High School in Baltimore; Princeton; hella writing at princeton
Fitzgerald College Friends John Peale Bishop, Edmund Wilson as Literary; Triangle Dining Club for parties
Fitzgerald after College Joins army in 1917, only goes to Montgomery; likes Zelda; 1919 discharged
Fitzgerald Early Writing 1919: Charles Scribner Sons; 1920: This Side of Paradise, Marries Zelda; 1922: The Beautiful and the Damned; 1924: Cruise to Fr. Riviera, Zelda wants divorce, tlaked out of, tries suicide, stays w/Fitz
Fitzgerald Later Writing 1925: Gatsby; Hollywood. shitty. Zelda goes crazy, Gatsby marries Shila. Gatsby is alcoholic
Fitzgerald Death 1940 @ 44, writing "The Last Tycoon"
Created by: tim.reynolds11
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