Image: F. Scott Fitzgerald - World War I Uniform - 1917

Description: American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald wearing his World War I-era army uniform, circa November 1917. After being romantically spurned by socialite Ginevra King and placed on academic probation by Princeton University, a heart-broken Fitzgerald decided that he wanted "to die." Wishing to fulfill a self-constructed narrative of a promising young writer whose life was cut short by his death in the Great War, Fitzgerald enlisted in the U.S. Army and was commissioned as a Lieutenant. He purchased a uniform tailored by Brooks Brothers and had stoic pictures of himself wearing the uniform sent to King and several publications such as Prince (a Princeton periodical). However, Fitzgerald did not obtain his desired opportunity to perish in the trenches after Ginevra King's rejection. Instead, while stationed in the American South, Fitzgerald wore his tailored Brooks Brothers uniform to a soirée in Montgomery, Alabama, where he encountered the vivacious Zelda Sayre, his future spouse. Zelda later would recall that—upon meeting the uniformed Fitzgerald—"he smelled like new goods."
Title: F. Scott Fitzgerald - World War I Uniform - 1917
Credit: F. Scott Fitzgerald archives. (First published in 1917-1918 periodicals)
Author: Fitzgerald commissioned a studio photographer in 1917 to photograph him.
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