F. Scott Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in 1986 at St.Paul, Minnesota. He was educated at St. Paul Academy, the Newman School and Princeton University. He left to join the army in 1917, while still attending Princeton University. After being demobilized he sold his first short story, Smart Set. When this first story did well it encouraged him to write his first novel in 1920 called, This Side of Paradise. His unconventional novel established him as a Bright light of his era. he then became know as the spokesman of the"jazz age". In the same year as the coming out of his first novel he married Zelda Sayre. This notorious couple spent there time in New York, Paris,Rome, and the Riviera. They then became part of the expatriate circle of Americans. Then in 1925 he published The Great Gatsby which is to be know as his crowning achievement. Then in 1930 his wife Zelda had to become institutionalized because of a nervous breakdown. His wife's illness as well as his drinking problems, gave Fitzgerald dificulty when he was writing Tender is the Night, which was published in 1943. Though it did help because he was able to drawn upon his own and his wifes expirences. Fitzgerald relied more on his short stories to accomodate his high style of living. At the Age of 44 he died because of a heart attack while working on an unfinished novel, The Last Tycoon. Fizgerald is nown to be one of the most improtant writers of the first half of the the twenieth century.