This author wrote a novel in which the narrator tells the title character "you can't repeat the past," causing the title character to reply "Can't repeat the past?
A character created by this author contrasts "spiritually married" and "spiritually unmarried" men while defending socialism to Mr. Ferrenby. A novel by this author ends by describing a generation "grown up to find all gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken." In his notebooks, he wrote "Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy." This author wrote a novel in which the narrator tells the title character "you can't repeat the past," causing the title character to reply "Can't repeat the past? Why of course you can!" He ended a novel with the line "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." For 10 points, name this American author of This Side of Paradise and The Great Gatsby.
A character created by this author contrasts "spiritually married" and "spiritually unmarried" men while defending socialism to Mr. Ferrenby.
F. Scott Fitzgerald &lt;Magin&gt;