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F. Scott Fitzgeralds

By rmatthews01

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    F. Scott Fitzgerald is known as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. He was born in St. Paul Minnesota on September 24, 1896. F. Scott Fitzgerald is most known for his novel “The Great Gatsby”.

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    When F. Scott Fitzgerald was 13 he published his first story in the school newspaper of St. Paul Academy.

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    Fitzgerald attended Princeton and wrote musicals. Due to his devotion to writing in college his academic status suffered, and after 3 years he enrolled into the military.

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    While in the army he met his future wife Zelda. Zelda wasn’t ready for commitment until Fitzgerald was financially ready. In 1919 he got discharged from the military and moved to NYC to find a way of fortune.

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    A year later, he published his first novel “The site of Paradise”. This was a best seller and made him lots of money.

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    A week after the novel was published he felt comfortable asking Zelda to marry him. Given the income he made off the sells of his novel, he knew he was ready to provide and marry her.

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    Along the line Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald had a daughter Francis Scott Fitzgerald.

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    In 1924, He moved to France hoping to sponsor his creativity, and grow his knowledge on writing.

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    The Great Gatsby was the novel of the 1920s ( the beginning of the jazz age) along with multiple other novels of Fitzgerald.

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    A year later he published his greatest work “The Great Gatsby” The Great Gatsby set him up for a good while of fortune and helped him gain more opportunities.

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    Over the course of his career he wrote 178 stories and published them in magazines, which financially support him to do what he loved most, creating novels and putting them out.

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    Although Fitzgerald was pretty known and had lots of credibility behind his name, he was an alcoholic and struggled with depression. As he watched his friends get more successful and him the opposite it sort of took him for a turn.

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    In 1937 he came to Hollywood to write screenplays, so he could gain more funds to release even more of his novels.

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    Fitzgerald continued to do more side quest and release more novels for the financial gain and so that the people could see his talent.

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    Fitzgerald was almost through his last novel “The last tycoon” when he sadly died of a heart attack on December 21, 1940