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F. Scott Fitzgerald, Princeton ’17, by Scott Donaldson

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No major American writer is so closely associated with his university as F. Scott Fitzgerald, partly because Fitzgerald sticks in the public consciousness as a sort of perpetual undergraduate: charming, talented, and rather irresponsible. But the association is of Fitzgerald’s making as well. In his fiction, Princeton looms large in his first and immensely popular novel, This Side of Paradise, and serves as setting for several stories. In his life, Fitzgerald stepped up his references to Old Nassau as he grew older; in his last years he went out of his way to let even strangers know of his connection with the university. Towards the end, in fact, he fit rather neatly into the stereotype of the Old Grad. The foundations for that feeling were laid early on. He decided on Princeton, the nine-year-old Scott told his playmates in Buffalo, after attending a Princeton Glee Club concert in 1905. Or he made the choice, according to a note in his scrapbook, after watching Sam White race ninety-f

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Princeton ’17, by Scott Donaldson F. Scott Fitzgerald, Princeton ’17 by Scott Donaldson “My father belonged all his life to Princeton” —Scottie Fitzgerald Smith No major American writer is so closely associated with his university as F. Scott Fitzgerald, partly because Fitzgerald sticks in the public consciousness as a sort of perpetual undergraduate: charming, talented, and rather irresponsible. But the association is of Fitzgerald’s making as well. In his fiction, Princeton looms large in his first and immensely popular novel, This Side of Paradise, and serves as setting

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