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Also known as Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul

Minnesota on September 24, 1896 and gave up the ghost on December 21, 1940. Fitzgerald is

regarded as the greatest fiction American writer of the 20th Century. He was the only son of

Edward and Mary Fitzgerald. He viewed himself as the heir of his father tradition and also,

“straight 1850 potato-famine Irish.”These made him feel that American life seemed both vulgar

and dazzling promising (Le Vot, 1985). He was determined to realize his intensely romantic

imagination which he termed as “a heightened sensitivity to promises of life.”At both St. Paul

Academy (1908-11) and Newman School (1911-13) he did not make to become popular but at

Princeton he almost realize his dream of brilliant success. At the university he became prominent

and he was able to meet and make lifelong friendship with Edmund Wilson and John Peale

Bishop.

He acquired leadership positions in socially important Triangle club and dramatic club.

Scott Fitzgerald got absorbed into writing at the expense of his coursework and this led to be

placed on academic probation, and in 1917 he dropped out of university to join Army (Le Vot,

p.156). He was afraid he would die in war before accomplishing his literary dream weeks before

reporting on duty he wrote The Romantic Egotist. In July 1918, while stationed near

Montgomery, Alabama, he met and fell in love with the daughter of the Supreme Court judge

Alabama Zelda Sayre. His determination to marry Zelda and achieve instant Success pushed him

to leave for New York where he secured advertising job at $90 a month. Zelda broke their

engagement she felt that, the little salary he was earning was not enough to sustain them.

Fitzgerald decided to go back St. Paul to rewrite for the second time the novel he had begun in
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Princeton. In the spring of 1920 it was published and he married Zelda. The pair got their

daughter and only child Frances (“Scottie”) the following year.

This side of Paradise was Scott Fitzgerald first novel, it was well received and earned him

a celebrity status.
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References

Le Vot, André. F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1983.

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