F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Jazz Age
...Age: "It was an age of miracles, it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of satire," we wrote in "Echoes of the Jazz Age". For many Americans, the 1920s was often referred to as the Roaring Twenties, but F. Scott Fitzgerald renamed this the Jazz Age because of his success as a writer, the boom in consumer goods, and the jazz incorpoarting a "big beat" in solo individual musicians. F. Scott Fitzgerald Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota ans is wildly considered the literary spokesnman of the "Jazz Age". Part of the interst of his work comes from the fact that the mad, gin-drinking, morally and spiritally bankrupt men and women he wrote about led lives that closely resembled his own. In 1917 he left his home in Princeton to join the army. During this time he began working on his ...