While stationed in Alabama, he fell in love with rich socialite Zelda Sayre. He attended Princeton University, but due to a failed relationship and a preoccupation with writing, he dropped out in 1917 to join the army. Paul, Minnesota, but was primarily raised in New York.
He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.įitzgerald was born into an upper-middle-class family in St. Although he temporarily achieved popular success and fortune in the 1920s, Fitzgerald only received wide critical and popular acclaim after his death. During his lifetime, he published four novels, four collections of short stories, and 164 short stories. He was best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age-a term which he popularized. So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.įrancis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and short-story writer.
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