Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896 in St. Paul Minnesota. He got his name from a distant cousin who wrote The Star Spangled Banner. He was the son of Edward Fitzgerald, a failed wicker furniture salesman, and Mary “Mollie” McQuillan, an Irish immigrant with a large inheritance. He grew up in both the Catholic and upper middle class environments. He started to write at an early age. He had his detective stories published in his high school newspaper. This encouraged him to write more enthusiastically. He attended Princeton University and while he was there he befriended Edmund Wilson, and John Peale Bishop. Both later became lifelong influences in his works. He dropped out of Princeton because of academic troubles later on, to join the United States Army and pursue his writings further. At that time the United States was entering World War I. He was stationed at Camp Sheridan, near Montgomery, Alabama, for his basic training. While he was there he met a high-spirited, 18 year old, Southern belle by the name of Zelda Sayre. When he was 21, still in the Army, he submitted his first novel for publication but it w
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While there he began his last novel The Last Tycoon, which was set amid the corruption and vulgarity in the Hollywood motion-picture industry and never finished. In 1937 he moved to Los Angeles, California because he was hired as a script writer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), since his last novel alienated him from the literary scene. He was fed up with this rejection so he turned to advertising as a steady income. He also wrote about other topics such as cosmopolitan life in New York City during prohibition, and of his childhood in the American Midwest. What he was earning was not enough to please Zelda or convince her to marry him, so she broke the engagement in 1919. From 1924 through 1931 the Fitzgeralds made their home on the French Riviera, however they loved to travel to Italy, France, Switzerland, and eight cities in the United States. It tells the story of Jay Gatsby, a young, non-shalont, American from the Midwest. Now that Fitzgerald was rich, Zelda wanted to marry him. Zelda experienced a series of mental breakdowns in the early 1930s that eventually had her sent off to the “looney bin. The novel captured a mood of spiritual desolation in the aftermath of World War I and a growing devil-may-care pursuit of pleasure among the American upper classes. He rewrote it, retitled it The Romantic Egoist and resubmitted it. Zelda died in 1948 due to a fire at Highland Hospital in North Carolina. 3 years later, after the birth of his only child, Frances Scott (Scottie) Fitzgerald, he completed his most well known literary work, The Great Gatsby. He becomes a bootlegger in order to attain the wealth and lavish way of life he feels are necessary to win the love of Daisy Buchanan.
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