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F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald. By: Dani Werner, Sina Reese, Peter Mercer, and Ryan Kozlowski. Birth. Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota. Schooling. 1911-1913: His parents sent him to Newman School, which is a Catholic Preparatory school in New Jersey.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  1. F. Scott Fitzgerald • By: Dani Werner, Sina Reese, Peter Mercer, and Ryan Kozlowski

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

  3. 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.

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

  5. 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.

  6. Most Notable Writings

  7. 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.

  8. What makes Fitzgerald notable? • Fitzgerald’s 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.

  9. 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.

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