F. Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896, in St. Paul, Minnesota.He was born to Mary McQuillan and Edward Fitzgerald. His mother was from an Irish-Catholic family. Who had made a small fortune in Minnesota as wholesale grocers. His father had a wicker furniture business in st. Paul. It later failed so he took a job as a salesman for Procter & Gamble. His job took his family b ack and forth between Buffalo and Syracuse in upstate New York during the first few years of Francis life. He later lost his job when Francis was 12 so they went back to st.Paul and lived off his mother’s money. Francis went to St. Paul Academy and that’s when he saw his first piece of writing appear in print. He was 13.It was a detective story …show more content…
He was placed on academic probation. Francis later flunked out and joined the army. With the fear that he might die in the war. His dreams unfinished he wrote the Romantic Egotist.It was rejected so he went on and commisoned in the army.Fitzgerald was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the infantry and assigned to Camp Sheridan outside of Montgomery, Alabama. It was there francis met Zelda Sayre, the daughter of an Alabama Supreme Court judge.The war ended in November 1918, before Fitzgerald was ever deployed.Upon his discharge he moved to New York City.He hoped to launch his career in advertising lucrative enough to convince Zelda to marry him. He later on quit his job and returned to …show more content…
An autobiographical story about love and greed. It was centered on Amory Blaine. An ambitious Midwesterner who falls in love with, but is ultimately rejected by, two girls from high-class families. The novel was published in 1920. He was only 24. Not only did he fulfill his dream and married the woman of his dreams. They married a week after his publication. They had one daughter Frances Scott Fitzgerald, born in 1921. He went on to writing more books. Not to many became as successful as his first published novel. The one book to over shrine his first published novel was the Great Gatsby. It was published in 1925. The book is narrated by Nick Carraway. An Midwesterner who moves into the town of West Egg on Long Island, next door to a mansion owned by the wealthy and mysterious Jay Gatsby. The novel follows Nick and Gatsby's strange friendship and Gatsby's pursuit of a married woman named Daisy, ultimately leading to his exposure as a bootlegger and his