F. Scott Fitzgerald and his novels: parallels between his worlds of fiction and realityF. Scott Fitzgerald wrote what he knew, giving readers a perfect reflection of America in the 1920s, considering this, his fictional work is almost autobiographical in a way. Although his topics were limited, they were well written due to his vast knowledge of the time period, vast knowledge of himself, and ability to express it through his writing. In his 1933 essay “One Hundred False Starts,” F. Scott Fitzgerald describes how he repeatedly drew on his own life experiences to create beautiful novels because doing so is most effective when trying to connect with the reader. He said: “We authors must above all repeat ourselves, this is the truth. We have two or three great and moving experiences in our life. Experiences so great and moving that in that moment it doesn't seem like anyone else has been so taken, beaten, dazzled, amazed, beaten, broken, saved, enlightened, rewarded and humbled in that way, never before." "Then let us learn our profession, well or not well, and we tell our two or three stories each time under a new disguise perhaps ten times, perhaps a hundred, as long as people listen” (p.132). His works were limited, but powerful. Fitzgerald's novels are inspired by his personal feelings and experiences of aspirations, alcohol, Princeton, Zelda Sayre, the literature of the period, and The Jazz Age, the phrase he coined. Fitzgerald's fiction was never just a factual, superficial autobiography; but a transformed memoir that applied many of his experiences with emphasis on his feelings towards them. None of the protagonists of his novels Love......middle sheet......BibliographyAfternoon of an Author, “One Hundred False Departures” ed. Arthur Mizener (New York: Scribners, 1958), p. 132."Art Imitating Life in Fitzgerald's Novels." Art imitating life in Fitzgerald's novels. Judith S. Baughman May 11, 2014 .Scrapbook, Princeton; the clipping is reproduced in the Fitzgerald/Hemingway Annual (1976), p. 108"The Beautiful and the Damned." Alma Classics. May 11, 2014 "Character Analysis of The Great Gatsby." SparkNote. SparkNote. May 11, 2014. “What a 'flapper novelist' thinks of his wife,” Baltimore Sun, October 7, 1923; F. Scott Fitzgerald in His Time: A Miscellany, ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli and Jackson R. Bryer (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1971), p. 259