REMEMBER SCOTT FITZGERALD F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1921 Paris in the 1920s proved the most influential decade of Fitzgeralds development. Fitzgerald made several excursions to Europe, mostly Paris and the French Riviera, and became friends with many members of the American expatriate community in Paris, notably Ernest Hemingway. Fitzgeralds friendship with Hemingway was quite vigorous, as many of Fitzgeralds relationships would prove to be. Hemingway did not get on well with Zelda. In addition to describing her as insane he claimed that she encouraged her husband to drink so as to distract Fitzgerald from his work on his novel,[16][17] the other work being the short stories he sold to magazines. Like most professional authors at the time, Fitzgerald supplemented his income by writing short stories for such magazines as The Saturday Evening Post, Colliers Weekly, and Esquire, and sold his stories and novels to Hollywood studios. This whoring, as Fitzgerald and, subsequently, Hemingway called these sales, was a sore point in the authors friendship. Fitzgerald claimed that he would first write his stories in an authentic manner but then put in twists that made them into saleable magazine stories.[17] WIKIPEDIA
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