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1896 – 1940 · Saint Paul
F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the party, then watched the lights go out.
About
Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota. He grew up feeling like an outsider among the rich, and that feeling shaped everything he wrote. He went to Princeton but left without finishing, then joined the army during World War I. While stationed in Alabama, he met Zelda Sayre, a bold Southern woman. She agreed to marry him only once his first novel, This Side of Paradise (1920), made him famous and gave him money.
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- The Great Gatsby 1925
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