Ernest Hemingway first met F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925.
Their first meeting took place at the Dingo American Bar and Restaurant on Paris’s rue Delambre, in the Montparnasse quarter. Hemingway later described the encounter in his memoir A Moveable Feast, recalling Fitzgerald as an unusually enthusiastic admirer of his work.
The meeting came shortly after Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby was published in April 1925. Fitzgerald was already the more established writer, while Hemingway was still building his reputation through journalism and short fiction. Fitzgerald soon encouraged Maxwell Perkins and Scribner’s to take Hemingway seriously.
The two men became friends, critics, and occasional rivals within the expatriate literary circle often called the Lost Generation. Their relationship later became strained by differences in temperament, ambition, drinking, and literary style. A common mix-up is confusing their first meeting with later encounters in Paris, the Riviera, or the United States; the famous Dingo Bar meeting belongs to 1925.