F. scott fitzgerald biography wiki

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 - December 21, 1940) was an Irish Americanwriter.

He is remembered mostly for his novelThe Great Gatsby, and for being one of the main members of the Lost Generation.

Life

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Fitzgerald was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He briefly went to the Nardin Academy^[1]– a private Roman Catholic school in Western New York.

When his father lost his job, the Fitzgerald family returned to Minnesota. F. Scott Fitzgerald then went to the St. Paul Academy, but was thrown out of the school when he was aged 16 for not working hard enough.

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Fitzgerald went to another school in New Jersey and eventually went to Princeton University in 1913. While he was at Princeton, Fitzgerald wrote for a musical-comedy club at the university which led to him sending a novel off to a book publishing company, Charles Scribner’s Sons.

The editor liked Fitzgerald’s writing, but did not publish the book. Fitzg