F. Scott Fitzgerald
Francis Scott Fitzgerald Was Born In St. Paul, Minnesota in September 24th, 1896 to Edward and Mollie Fitzgerald. His father did work in a wicker furniture store but the family mainly lived off of Mollie's inheritance. In 1911 Fitzgerald attended the catholic prep school, Newman, there he wrote his first novel, The Romantic Egotist. The novel was good but it was not good enough to be accepted by a publisher. In 1918 Scott went to Camp Sheridan and there he met his wife Zelda Sayre, she was the daughter of an Alabama supreme court judge. Zelda was not going to marry a poor man so for years Scott kept trying to get his novels published and finally he hit the jackpot when he published This Side of Paradise. He became very famous after that and had married Zelda a week later. Scott wrote many more novels afterwards but they were not very successful so he had made ends meet by writing short stories for magazines. Fitzgerald became an alcoholic during his downward spiral and his marriage was falling apart. In 1924 Fitzgerald went to France and wrote The Great Gatsby, people loved it but the sales were not as good as they expected. It seemed as if as time kept going Fitzgerald's life was spiraling out of control. He was an alchoholic, his marriage was a fail due to adultery, and he was only making money from short stories he had wrote for magazines and articles. Scott had to use most of his money to pay for Zelda's psychiatric health, she had had many breakdowns and was not in good health. In 1937 Fitzgerald had gotten another big break for his participation in the MGM movie "Three Comrades". December 21, 1940 Fitzgerald had died of an heart attack and he was not remembered as a great saint. People believed that he was destined to have a bad reputation but now he is remembered as one of the greatest writers of the 1920's.