[2] Born on September 3, 1907, in Erie, Pennsylvania, he was the son of Mason Price and Mabel Moore Mizener, who married in Cuyahoga, Ohio.
[1] The last two pages of the book make overt Gatsby's embodiment of the American dream as a whole by identifying his attitude with the awe of the Dutch sailors when, "for a transitory enchanted moment," they found "something commensurate to [their] capacity for wonder" in the "fresh, green breast of the new world."
[3] "The last two pages of the book," Mizener wrote, "make overt Gatsby's embodiment of the American Dream as a whole by identifying his attitude with the awe of the Dutch sailors" when first glimpsing the New World.
"[9] Despite these distortions, Fitzgerald's acquaintance Budd Schulberg commented that Mizener's biography made "credible the almost incredible life of a man who had the world at his feet when he was 25 and at his throat when he was 40.
"[2] After the release of his 1951 biography, a blind Max Gerlach—the primary inspiration for Fitzgerald's literary character of Jay Gatsby—attempted to contact Mizener.
[10] Seven years later, Gerlach died on October 18, 1958, at Bellevue Hospital in New York City,[11] and he was buried in a pine casket at Long Island National Cemetery.
[12] On February 15, 1988, Mizener died of congestive heart failure at a nursing home in Bristol, Rhode Island, at the age of 80.