While Fitzgerald married and moved to New York after his discharge, Biggs returned to Princeton to graduate and went on to earn his law degree at Harvard. When Fitzgerald needed someone to get him out of jail after a bender, though, it was Biggs who inevitably provided the bail.īoth men enlisted in the Army after American entered the First World War. Scott Fitzgerald behind him.īiggs later admitted that while he was “a literary snob, Fitz was a snob’s snob.” Despite the fact that Biggs came from a far wealthier family, Fitzgerald somehow managed to dress in the best clothing available from Brooks Brothers and Jacob Reed. The 1917-1918 staff of the Princeton Tiger. He and Fitzgerald shared a room during FSF’s last term at Princeton before entering the Army in late 1917. Biggs would serve as managing editor for both, though he quickly realized that Fitzgerald was the better (and more prolific) writer. This is not entirely unjust.īiggs (Princeton ’18), Fitzgerald (’17), and Edmund Wilson (’16) became friends through their passion for writing and editing Princeton’s two literary magazines, The Tiger and The Nassau Literary Magazine. Scott Fitzgerald, and if either of his novels enters the discussion, it’s probably in a footnote. is mentioned today, it’s inevitably as a supporting player in the life of his much more famous Princeton roommate, F.
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