Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
Significance to American Literature
Background
- F. Scott Fitzgerald was born September 24, 1986.
- When he was 13, his first printed piece of writing was put into a school paper.
- His parents sent him to Newman Catholic Preparatory School when he turned 15.
- He attended Princeton University but never graduated.
- He joined the army.
- Got married to Zelda Sayre in 1920.
- Fitzgerald died on December 21, 1940.
Novels
- "This side of paradise" (1920)
- "The Beautiful and Damned" (1922)
- "The Great Gatsby" (1925)
- "Tender is the Night" (1934)
- "The last Tycoon" (1941: This novel was left unfinished)