F. Scott Fitzgerald
1896-1940
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on September 24th 1896 to an upper middle class family in Minnesota, USA. He attended Princeton University, where he joined the Princeton Triangle Club, a literary group that led to his first attempt to publish a novel.
Fitzgerald met his wife Zelda, a flapper and the "golden girl" of Alabama Society at a country club but was unable to convince her that he wold be able to support her until the publication of his first novel, "This Side of Paradise" which became the most popular book of the year, selling well enough to support the opulent lifestyle Zelda wanted. They were married on March 26 1920.
As a writer he was said to have epitomised the Jazz Age, which he himself described as "a generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken." The New York Times said of him after his death; "in the literary sense he invented a "generation" ... he might have interpreted and even guided them ... they saw a different and nobler freedom threatened with destruction."
Fitzgerald died on 21 December 1940 after suffering two heart attacks .
Fitzgerald met his wife Zelda, a flapper and the "golden girl" of Alabama Society at a country club but was unable to convince her that he wold be able to support her until the publication of his first novel, "This Side of Paradise" which became the most popular book of the year, selling well enough to support the opulent lifestyle Zelda wanted. They were married on March 26 1920.
As a writer he was said to have epitomised the Jazz Age, which he himself described as "a generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken." The New York Times said of him after his death; "in the literary sense he invented a "generation" ... he might have interpreted and even guided them ... they saw a different and nobler freedom threatened with destruction."
Fitzgerald died on 21 December 1940 after suffering two heart attacks .