F. Scott Fitzgerald, born at St. Paul, Minn., on September 24, 1896,
attended Princeton University, 1913-17, as every reader of his novel,
_This Side of Paradise_, knows. He served in France as an officer of
infantry, becoming aide-de-camp to Brig.-Gen. J. A. Ryan after the
Armistice and being honorably discharged in February, 1919. He
records himself as a Socialist. His novel, _The Great Gatsby_, has
been held by most competent judges to be his best book to date.
"The Pusher-in-the-Face," first published in _Woman's Home Companion_
for February, 1925, and included in Fitzgerald's book, _All the Sad
Young Men_, is something more than a humorous story, appealing as it
does to a universal experience--for who has not at some tortured
moment in his life yearned to push-in the face of the nuisance at the
rear? This, as editors say, is a story of the very widest
"reader-appeal."