Both ernest hemingway and f. scott fitzgerald were successful playwrights. optimistic reporters. pessimistic novelists. unsuccessful artists.

Both Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald were pessimistic novelists. Option C is correct.

In the 1920s both American writers F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway lived in Paris amongst a group of like-minded artists called 'The Lost Generation.” These writers were friends, they shared their love of literature and used to drink, though from the outside they appeared very different.

Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American journalist, novelist, short-story writer, and noted sportsman.

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American fiction writer.

d is the correct answer