American writers of his time. He wrote about the troubling time period in which

he lived known as the Jazz Age. During this era people were either rich or

dreamt of great wealth. Fitzgerald fell into the trap of wanting to be wealthy,

and suffered great personal anguish because of these driving forces. I have

chosen to write a term paper on F.Scott Fitzgerald. The goal of this

presentation is to show F. Scott Fitzgerald's life through his defeats and

triumphs and how these situations affected his life as a writer.

Fitzgerald's life started in the Midwestern part of the United States.

On September 24, 1896, he was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. F. Scott

Fitzgerald was of Irish heritage on both sides and was distantly related to

Francis Scott Key, for whom he is named, and to Maryland aristocracy. His

parents, Edward Fitzgerald of the Glen Mary Farm near Rockville, Maryland and

Mary McQuillan of St. Paul wed February 13, 1890 in Washington, D.C. Fitzgerald'

s maternal grandfather was a very successful wholesale merchant. His

grandfather's early death and his father's inability to keep a job, forced the

attempts at writing a masterpiece, on April 11, 1925, Fitzgerald's The Great

Fitzgerald died trying to resurrect his name from the has beens, and put

than a lifetime to reach your goals and Fitzgerald found a way to accomplish his

Newman School in Hackensack, NJ. Growing up with a father who was out of work

sent away to war encouraged Fitzgerald to go back to Minnesota to start on

Encyclopedia, 1993). Showing his failed attempts to reach back into the past

and perhaps best describes Fitzgerald's unsettling life. It reads as follows:

Some common words found in the essay are:
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Approximate Word count = 1367
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)