F. Scott Fitzgerald

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

• By Dani Werner, Sina Reese, Peter Mercer, and
  Ryan Kozlowski

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Birth

• Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born on September
  24, 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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Schooling

• 1911-1913 His parents sent him to Newman School,
  which is a Catholic Preparatory school in New
  Jersey.
• After graduating Newman School, he went to
  continue his artistic development at Princeton
  University.
• He wrote for the Triangle Club musicals, articles
  for the Princeton Tiger, and stories for the
  Nassau Literary magazine.
• His first novel, The Romantic Egotist, was a
  success and made him famous.

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Marriage

• Fitzgerald married Zelda Sayre.
• Zelda was known for mental breakdowns, and she
  was admitted to a mental hospital quite a few
  times.

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Death

• Fitzgerald died of a heart attack on December
  21st, 1940, at the age of 44.
• He was working on his final novel, The Love of
  the Last Tycoon, but he only got half way through
  before he passed.

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Most Notable Writings
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Timeline

• 1/1/1916 Neglects studies at Princeton to write
  scripts for musicals.
• 7/21/1918 Meets his future wife, Zelda.
• 3/26/1920 Wrote This Side of Paradise.
• 3/22/1922 Goes to France to write The Great
  Gatsby.

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What makes Fitzgerald notable?

• Fitzgeralds chief quality was his ability to be
  both a leading participant in the high life he
  described, and a detached observer of it.
• He was considered advanced to other writers in
  his time.
• He was writing during The Great Depression and
  The Roaring Twenties.
• Readers considered his stories a chronicle and
  celebration of morale decline. They also realized
  they had morale themes.

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• The Cracked Up was an essay in which he described
  his physical and spiritual collapse.
• A few years after his death in Hollywood he won a
  few awards.
• Stories about wealth gave people hope and happy
  feelings.
• Stories about failure gave people feelings of
  hopelessness.