Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, author of many famous novels and short stories, the most famous of which was The Great Gatsby. He started writing when he was in high school. He wrote detective stories for his school Newspaper. It was then when he started to develop his famous and unique writing style. He attended Princeton in 1917 and found that the atmosphere there was very inspiring. While he spent his time scrawling away at his literary works his grades paid the price for his wasted time, and they crumbled. He fell in love with a woman named Ginevra King, they dated for a while but eventually just like his grades in Princeton, so did his relationship. Although he was inspired by Ginerva and his wife Zelda both while writing the notable character Daisy in his most popular book The Great Gatsby. …show more content…
As she got older she also took a liking to writing. She met Scott Fitzgerald when she graduated high school. She wasn’t too sure about his financial stability, so she continued dating around. After publishing his first book: This side of Paradise Zelda agreed to marry Fitzgerald. A year later Scottie, their only daughter was born.
Zelda published many books none of them made it big though. She also made art, she did many things, painting was supposedly just a hobby of hers. All her pictures were beautiful and bright, despite being made in the middle of the Great Depression. She had a very abstract style of using watercolor. Most of her (Surviving) paintings are human figures having fun or dancing. The others died along with her in a fire. She and her husband were proclaimed to be ‘the face’ of the jazz