F. Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896 and died on December 21, 1940. His family had enough economic income to send him to prep school and then to study at Princeton University, but the circumstances of World War 1 didn't allow him to finish college. He was a short story writer and novelist, but meanwhile he was trying to gain success he was writing in literary magazines. He always tried to live a life full of luxury and partying putting in consideration that he was living in the roaring 1920s where jazz music and sophistication were the fuss of the century. During his youth he fell for a wealthy woman named Zelda Sayre who at first rejected him because he wasn't rich enough for her, she was the embodiment of the liberated woman who spent her life traveling and earning great debt along with her husband spending all their money with little, but enough fame, that he had with his first novel. He published his first novel "This Side of Paradise" and became famous at age 24. Critics saw him as one of Americas most promising writes …show more content…
Now his third novel, which is one of the most beloved American classics, "The Great Gatsby" which was filled with criticism towards materialism and how superficial society was during the 20s. Before he wrote "Tender is the Night" he succumbed in alcoholism and debt while his wife started suffering from mental illness and later admitted in a mental health hospital. When he finally finished his fourth novel, people didn't pay much attention to it and didn't give much credit for it, making him write a screenplay for it but had poor commercial success. Before finishing his last novel "The Love of the Last Tycoon" he died from a heart attack at the age of 44 and his wife died in 1948 due to her schizophrenia leaving their daughter Francis Fitzgerald who was born in