Biography

__Biography- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)__
== Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. He was an only child and his family had little wealth. One of his distance relatives was Francis Scott Key, the writer of “The Star Spangled Banner.” He enrolled in Princeton in 1913 but didn’t graduate. And then enlisted in the Army. His first novel “This Side of Paradise” was published shortly after his discharged for the service and it was a huge success. == == He got married to Zelda Sayre in 1920.After 1929 the stock market crashed, his wife had nervous breakdowns, he declined as a writer.Their wealth also declined.This forced him to turn to Hollywood as a screenplay writer. Fitzgerald wrote "Winter Dreams" in 1922. He also published "The Great Gatsby" in 1925 which was a very successful novel.He wrote a second novel,"Tender Is the Night" in 1934, along with a few short stories. == ==Fitzgerald died of a heart attack in 1940 when he was in the middle of his last novel "The Last Tycoon." When asked to finish the novel John O'Hara declined and said to John Steinbeck "Fitzgerald was a better just plain writer than all of us put together.Just words writing."==