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F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul ,Minnesota September 24, 1896.he was known as the American Authors of the 1920's and 1930's.Fitzgerald started writing at an early age in high school the stories he would write would be published in the school newspaper.He dropped out of Princeton University to go join the army and he continued to pursue his obsession ,writing magazine articles and even lyric.He wrote novels and short stories and became a screen writer in hollywood.He fell in love with Zelda a southern bell.She met him at the age of 18 .Zelda went to all the parties he would go to and they get had a bond.After Fitzgerald first novel Zelda and Fitzgerald got married.But they got alot of gossip in the 1930's because Fitzgerald was addicted to alcohol and Zelda was suffering a mental disorder called schzophrenia .Which lead her to stay at lot of mental hospitals. Fitzgerald died in his apartment ,from a heart attack in December 21,1940 .He was working on a other novel called The Last Tycoon when he died and never finished it .Zelda died in March 1948 ,when the mental hospital she was in caught on fire and died.





F. Scott Fitzgerald was best known for his novel The Great Gastby ,which captured the spirt of the "age of jazz"decade or the "roaring twenties".Some of his other book were:The Side of Paradise(1920),The Beautiful and Damned (1920),and Tender Is the Night(1934).And Zelda only wrote a novel named Save Me The Watz while staying at the John's Hopkins mental hospital.




















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