Fitzgerald

Fitzgerald F. Scott Fitzgerald is best known for his novels The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night, both of which depicted disillusion with the American dream of self improvement, wealth, and success through hard work and perseverance. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. Fitzgerald was of mixed Southern and Irish descent. He was given three names after the author of the Star Spangled Banner to whom he was distantly related. In 1913, Fitzgerald entered Princeton University, but he left the University in 1917 because of academic problems. After leaving Princeton, Fitzgerald took up a commission in the United States Army, which was then entering World War 1. While in basic training near Montgomery, Alabama, Francis met high-spirited, eighteen year old Zelda Sayre. The two married in 1920 and Zelda became the model for many of the female characters in his fiction. Discharged in 1919, Fitzgerald worked briefly in New York for an advertising agency. His first story, Babes in the Wood, appeared in the Smart Set. Fitzgerald’s first novel, This Side of Paradise, was originally entitled “The Romantic Egoist.” He started the novel while in the army, but it was published in 1920. The book met fitzgerald, fitzgerald’s, francis, published, novel, success, life, zelda, gatsby, after, worked, while, story, scott, met, first, american, 1920, zelda’s, young, york, wrote, work, whom, wealth, university, three, tender, tells, started, short, sayre, rest, princeton, one, night