F. Scott Fitzgerald
25-Sep-1896
United States
Author
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (also known as F. Scott Fitzgerald) was a short story writer and theologian regarded as one of the greatest writers in American literary history because of the great prosperity of his third book, The Great Gatsby. Perhaps a double-edged American novel, as well as a clear social history of the Jazz Age, the Great Gatsby has had to be read by almost every American high school student and has had a lasting impact on generations of students. At 24, the success of his first novel, This Side of Paradise, made Fitzgerald famous. One week later, he married his favorite woman and his museum, Zelda Sayre. However, in the late 1920s Fitzgerald came down and drank, and Zelda had a mental breakdown. After the failure of Tender is the Night, Fitzgerald moved to Hollywood and became a scriptwriter. He died of a heart attack in 1940, at the age of 44, just after his latest novel.
