This is the story of Amory Blaine-a handsome,wealthy,and spoiled young Princeton student.Closely mirroring Fitzgerald's own experiences at school and abroad,Blaine's journey from prep school to college to the First World -War is the story of "the lost generation."Cynical and world-weary at the age of thirty,Blaine is the symbol of what Fitzgerald described as" a new gen-eration grown up to find all Gods dead,all wars fought,all faiths in man shaken."

F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in St.Paul,Minnesta,and attended Princeton University.In 1920,the same year in which the publication of This Side of Paradise propelled him to famd,he married Zelda Sayre.The couple divided their time between New York,Paris,and the Rivera,running in expatriate circles taht included such notable literary figures as Gertrude Stein,Ernest Hemingway,and John Dos Passos.One of the most influential American writers of the twentieth century,Fitzgerald's masterpieces include The Beautiful and the Damned,The Great Gatsby,and Tender Is the Night.Upon his dearth in 1940,left behind an unfinished novel,The Love of the Last Tycoon,which was published posthumously.