Alternative Title: Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald, in full
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, (born September 24, 1896, St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S. died December 21, 1940, Hollywood, California), American short-story writer and novelist famous for his depictions of the Jazz Age (the 1920s), his most brilliant novel being
The Great Gatsby (1925). His private life, with his wife, Zelda, in both America and France, became almost as celebrated as his novels.
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Who was F. Scott Fitzgerald?
F. Scott Fitzgerald was a 20th-century American short-story writer and novelist. Although he completed four novels and more than 150 short stories in his lifetime, he is perhaps best remembered for his third novel,
he s born in 1899, just as the new century s about to begin, and he s of age to come under fire in world war i, to experience the growth of american literary modernism in paris, he goes to the spanish civil war, he s back under fire in world war ii and as well as being a wonderful writer of fiction, he s also a journalist. he s travelling the globe to the greco-turkish war, he s a citizen of the world. how did he get here to key west? he arrived he ever in the year 1928. he was returning from paris with his second wife, pauline pfeiffer. she was pregnant with their first child, seven months pregnant. their idea was to, tha they acty took an ocean liner to cuba, took a ferry from cuba to key west. they were going to pick up a car here. pauline pfeiffer s rich uncle was giving them a car to drive to her family home in arkansas. the car wasn t ready when they got here, so the ford dealership gave them a little apartment and they spent six weeks here waiting for that car. dur