Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
Did you know that This Side of Paradise is the first recorded time someone used the word "wicked" to refer to something cool or awesome? Our boy Fitzgerald was wicked smart. (Source)
F. Scott Fitzgerald published This Side of Paradise when he was only twenty-three years old. The book made him a super famous author and he'd stay famous for the rest of his life. It's fair to say the guy never had to work a lot of day jobs. (Source)
Like Amory Blaine, F. Scott Fitzgerald was put on probation at Princeton for poor marks and he eventually dropped out to join the U.S. Army. (Source)