F Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald is best known for his novels The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night, both of which depicted disillusion with the American dream of self improvement, wealth, and success through hard work and perseverance.Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. Fitzgerald was of mixed Southern and Irish descent. He was given three names after the author of the Star Spangled Banner to whom he was distantly related. In 1913, Fitzgerald entered Princeton University, but he left the University in 1917 because of academic problems. After leaving Princeton, Fitzgerald took up a commission in the United States Army, which was then entering World War 1. While in basic training near Montgomery, Alabama, Francis met high-spirited, eighteen year old Zelda Sayre. The two married in 1920 and Zelda became the model for many of the female characters in his fiction. Discharged in 1919, Fitzgerald worked briefly in New York for an advertising agency. His first story, Babes in the Wood, appeared in the Smart Set. Fitzgerald's first novel, This Side of Paradise, was originally
Financial success as well as fame enabled the Fitzgeralds to become integral figures in the Jazz Age culture that he portrayed in his writing. Fitzgerald's partly autobiographical second novel, The Beautiful and the Damned, was also published in 1922. The story tells of a wealthy young couple whose lives are destroyed by their lavish lifestyle. The work was not a big success like his first novel. In 1924, the Fitzgerald's moved to Europe. In France, Francis completed The Great Gatsby, which was published in 1925. Critics believe this to be one of Fitzgerald's greatest works. The story tells of a man named Jay Gatsby, a young American never-do-well from the Midwest. Gatsby becomes a bootlegger (seller of illegal liquor) in order to attain the wealth and extravagant way of life he feels necessary to win the love of Daisy Buchanan a married, upper-class woman who had once rejected him. Fitzgerald's alcoholism and Zelda's mental breakdown attracted wide publicity in the 1930's. In 1937, Francis moved to Los Angeles, California, where he worked as a scriptwriter. While in Hollywood, he met Sheilah Graham, a g
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