This Alabama Bright Light Has A Passion For All Things F. Scott Fitzgerald

By Karim Shamsi-Basha

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”

One of the greatest American writers penned the quote above in one of the most widely read novels of the Roaring ‘20s – the years of jazz and champagne and a world trying to figure itself out after the First World War.

Scott Fitzgerald wrote those words in his best seller “The Great Gatsby.”The last surviving home of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald is in Montgomery. The Fitzgeralds lived there for nine months – they averaged only six months per house.

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