F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald is the amazing writer behind this text. His full name is Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald. He was born on September 24, 1896 in Saint Paul Minnesota. For college he went to Princeton, he was class of 1917, where he neglected his studies to work on his literary apprenticeship. He was put on academic probation and was unlikely to graduate so he joined the army in 1917. Fitzgerald was commissioned a second lieutenant in the infantry. In June of 1918 he was asigned to Camp Sheridan near Montgumry Alabama. There is were met Zelda Sayer and they fellin love. He was discharged from the army in 1919. Over the years he wrote book like This Side of Paradise and The Beautiful and Damned. He published in The Saturday Evening Post and wrote a play called The Vegetable. In the Spring of 1924 he went to France where he wrote The Great Gatsby. He came back to America and rented houses. He went to Hollywood and got screen credit for adapting Three Comrades. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald died on December 21, 1940.



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