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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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F . Scott Fitzgerald

F . Scott Fitzgerald a mixed Southern and Irish descent was born on September 24 , 1986 in St . Paul , Minnesota and was given his three names after the writer of The Star Spangled Banner though they were distantly related . He was the son of Edward and Mary . His source of talent remains unknown as his father was from Maryland and became a salesman when his furniture business failed his mother was a daughter of an Irish immigrant . He attended the St

. Paul Academy and at thirteen years his first writing , a detective story appeared in the school news between 1911 and 1913 , he attended a Catholic prep school in New Jersey where he met Father S . Fay who encouraged his ambitions for individual distinction and accomplishments

In 1917 he abandoned his studies due to his poor academic records and wrote the scripts and lyrics for the Princeton Triangle Club musicals and contributed to the Princeton humor magazines and the Nassau Literary Magazine . Also , in 1917 , he joined the army and certain that he would die in the war he wrote a novel The Romantic Egoistic which was praised of its originality , in1918 he fell in love with eighteen-year-old Zelda Sayre which raised his hopes of the success of the novel but unfortunately it was rejected after revision (Matthew 1981

Fitzgerald quit his job in 1919 and returned to St . Paul to revise his novel as This side of Paradise which was on Amory...

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