F. Scott Fitzgerald, in full Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, was born on September 24, 1896, in St. Paul, Minnesota, United States and died on December 21, 1940 in Hollywood, California. He was American short-story writer and novelist famous for his representation of the Jazz Age in the 1920s, his most brilliant novel is The Great Gatsby that he wrote in 1925. The was the only son from the marriage between Edward Fitzgerald and his mother Mary McQuillan Fitzgerald came from an Irish-Catholic family. He was the son of a failed, elegant father and very religious mother.
He was a very smart boy in and a very romantic imagination and his family had a big status in the community were him and his family were living. He liked that his family had a good status because that helped him get a good education in school and a good college. He went to school in St. Paul Academy and that were his joy for writing short stories because there he had his first story printed. Then his parents transferred him from school to a very good and prestigious school, that was Newman School in New Jersey. There, he met Father Sigourney Fay, who noticed his natural talent as a writer and advised him to continue with his path to becoming a writer.
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He became a very important man in the literature of the university and became good friends with Edmund Wilson and John Peale Bishop. He became the leader in a very important Triangle Club, a dramatic society, and was elected to one of the leading clubs of the university. He also wrote various scripts for the well-known Tringle Club musical and wrote a lot of articles for the Princeton Tiger magazine and stories for Nassau Literary