December 2009
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from the princeton companion →
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was a star-spangled Princetonian of the Class of 1917. The poet Robert Browning once wrote that the legend inside his heart was “Italy.” With Fitzgerald it would probably have been “Princeton.” He entered this earthly paradise in the fall of 1913 from the Catholic Newman School in Hackensack, squeaking past his entrance examinations...