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F. Scott Fitzgerald 1917
Famously, Fitzgerald set his Jazz Age novel This Side of Paradise at Princeton, and reportedly died while reading the Princeton Alumni Weekly.
100 Years Ago This Flop Led F. Scott Fitzgerald 1917 to ‘The Great Gatsby’
When his play, ‘The Vegetable,’ failed, Fitzgerald abandoned playwriting for novels
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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s First Love
Before Scott marries Zelda, he was smitten by a young debutante who became the model for Gatsby’s Daisy
Paw in print
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October 2025
Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott ’92; President Eisgruber ’83 defends higher ed; Julia Ioffe ’05 explains Russia.
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