![]() ![]() He then attended Newman School, a prep school in Hackensack, New Jersey, in 1911- 1912. When Fitzgerald, Sr., was fired, the family moved back to Minnesota, where Fitzgerald attended Saint Paul Academy and Summit School in Saint Paul, Minnesota from 1908 - 1911. ![]() ![]() His heroes- handsome, confident, and doomed - blaze brilliantly before exploding, and his heroines are typically beautiful, intricate, and alluring.īorn in Saint Paul, Minnesota to an upper-middle class Roman Catholic family, Fitzgerald was named for his distant and famous relative Francis Scott Key, but was commonly known as 'Scott'.įitzgerald spent 1898-1901, and 1903- 1908 in Buffalo, New York, where his father worked for Procter & Gamble. Many admire what they consider his remarkable emotional honesty. He finished four novels, left a fifth unfinished, and wrote dozens of short stories that treat themes of youth, despair, and age. In his own age, Fitzgerald was the self-styled spokesman of the "Lost Generation", or the Americans born in the 1890s who came of age during World War I. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896- December 21, 1940) was an Irish American Jazz Age novelist and short story writer.įitzgerald is regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century. ![]()
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