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F. Scott Fitzgerald.

American novelist and short story writer. He was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and entered Princeton University in nineteen thirteen. In nineteen seventeen, he left before graduating to join the US Army. While stationed in Alabama, he met and became engaged to Zelda Sayre, who also had ambitions to be a writer.

After he left the army in nineteen nineteen, he moved to New York and worked briefly for an advertising agency.

In the same year, he sold his first short story, Babes in the Wood.

In the story, the hero, like Fitzgerald, goes to Princeton before joining the army. Unlike Fitzgerald, the character gets sent to France to fight in the First World War and then works in advertising.

Encouraged by the success of the story, Fitzgerald returned to Saint Paul and rewrote a novel he had started in the army, This Side of Paradise, which was published in nineteen twenty and was an immediate success.

After a turbulent romance, Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre were married in nineteen twenty, and two years later, they moved to Great Neck, New York. Living in this rich community gave Fitzgerald a lot of material for his nineteen twenty-five novel, The Great Gatsby.

Although he was writing and publishing stories and novels, the couple needed to live more cheaply, so in nineteen twenty-four, they moved to Europe. While they were living there, Fitzgerald's greatest novel, The Great Gatsby, was published.

In the following years, the Fitzgeralds traveled back and forth between Europe and the States several times. For a couple of periods, he worked in Hollywood as a scriptwriter, and he later returned to take up a well-paid contract with a film studio. Despite his talents as a writer, he only completed one film script before being sacked because of his problems with alcohol.

By the mid-nineteen thirties, he and Zelda were living separately because she was suffering from mental health problems and living in a hospital. Although they never got divorced, he started a relationship with a journalist, and it was in her apartment that he died of a heart attack in nineteen forty. Zelda outlived him by eight years, but died tragically in a fire in the mental hospital where she was living.

With their good looks and wild lifestyle, the Fitzgeralds represented the nineteen twenties Jazz Age. They were both talented people, and F. Scott Fitzgerald is thought to be one of the USA's finest novelists. Sadly, they both had problems which some people think destroyed them and wasted their talents.