F Scott Fitzgerald was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota in 1896. He always had a romantic imagination and wanted to be a writer. He attended both Saint Paul Academy and Newman School. After completing those he attended Princeton University, he fell in love with a woman named Ginevra King but unfortunately, they broke up. After their break up, he flunked out of Princeton. After flunking out of Princeton again, he decided to join the army. Wow being stationed in Montgomery Alabama in 1918. He met a young woman named Zelda Sayre. She was the daughter of an Alabama supreme court judge. He got an advertising job that only paid $90. Zelda was unhappy and decided to break off the marriage. He decided to go back to Saint Paul to rewrite a novel that he began at Princeton. In the spring of 1920 the novel with published, and he married Zelda. His first novel was called This Side Of Paradise. The novel was a hit, and he then began writing his second novel called The Beautiful and Damned. In 1925 Fitzgerald wrote his most iconic novel, The Great Gatsby. It is dubbed as the most American novel of all time. Following the story of Jay Gatsby, a famous and rich man. he uses his skills of charm and lust to appear as a rich man who has it all. Soon we find out that he is truly a conman. And by the end of the novel Jay Gatsby passes away. Fitzgerald was an alcoholic and his wife Zelda had mental health issues. In 1940 he died of a heart attack. He was only 44 years old. Fitzgerald wrote multiple stories in his life.

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