Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota; his father, whose factory had gone bankrupt, became a travelling salesman. He left Princeton without a degree, joined the army in 1917 and married Zelda Sayre in 1920, a few days after a first novel that made him famous. The couple lived between Long Island, Paris and the Riviera, and the author remained in debt. Zelda was institutionalised from 1930; he ended up as a screenwriter in Hollywood, convinced he had failed. He died in 1940, at the age of forty-four.

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• NovelThe Great GatsbyFrancis Scott Fitzgerald · 1925Literature