Novelist and American short-story writer F. Scott Fitzgerald is known for his unstable personal life and his famous novel The Great Gatsby. F. Scott was the only son of an aristocratic father and a simple, working-class mother. He was Born on September 24, 1896. Like the vital character of The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald had a deeply romantic imagination; he once called it "a heightened sensitivity to the promises of life." The proceedings of Fitzgerald's own life can be seen as an effort to realize those promises.
Fitzgerald was a brilliant, handsome and determined boy, the pride and joy of his parents and mainly his mother. He attended the St. Paul Academy. When he was 13, he saw his initial piece of writing come out in print: a detective story published in the school newspaper. In 1911, his parents sent him to the Newman School, an esteemed Catholic preparatory school in New Jersey , when Fitzgerald was 15 years
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The Great Gatsby, Published in 1925, is recited by Nick Carraway, a Midwesterner who shifts into the town of West Egg on Long Island, next door to a mansion owned by the prosperous and strange Jay Gatsby. The novel follows Nick and Gatsby's eccentric friendship and Gatsby's tracking down of a married woman named Daisy, eventually leading to his disclosure as a bootlegger and his demise.
The Great Gatsby is considered Fitzgerald's most excellent written piece with its striking melody, appropriate representation of the Jazz Age, and thorough evaluation of pragmatism, love and the American Dream. Even though the book was well-acknowledged when it was in print. It was not until the 1950s and '60s, long after Fitzgerald's death, that it received its height as the best portrayal of the "Roaring Twenties," and also as one of the utmost American novels ever