F. Scott Fitzgerald is known as one of the greatest authors. Although he did not finish all his books, he was a very successful autor. He was a relative to Francis Scott Keys the author of “The Star Spangled Banner”, who he was named after. He thought the American life seemed vulgar, but promising. His full name is Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald. He was born on September 24, 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota. He died on December 21, 1940 in Hollywood, California. Married to his wife Zelda. F. Scott Fitzgerald was a very successful author with a not so wonderful life story. He passed away at the age of 44.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was born to Edward Fitzgerald and Mollie McQuillan Fitzgerald. He was born to a very unsuccessful father who was a poet and writer. His mother had a very wealthy inheritance. He had no siblings the one he had died at birth. He was married to his wife Zelda for 20 years. Zelda was a flapper, song writer, and novelist. He had a daughter Frances Scott Fitzgerald, which he called “Scottie”. He never had any other children.
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Scott Fitzgerald went to a few different colleges St. Paul Academy, Newman School, and Princeton. At St. Paul Academy and Newman School he tried way too hard in the process became unpopular. He became a well known figure in literature at Princeton. He became the leader of the Triangle Club, it was a dramatic society, was one of the leading clubs at Princeton. He fell for Ginvera King when he lost her flunked out of the university. A few great quotes from F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.”; “Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”; and “Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your