The Great Gatsby, considered his masterpiece, was published in 1925. The 1920s proved the most influential decade of Fitzgerald's development. Their only child, Frances Scott "Scottie" Fitzgerald, was born on October 26, 1921. Scott and Zelda were married in New York's St. The novel was published on March 26, 1920, and became one of the most popular books of the year. Recast as This Side of Paradise, about the post-WWI flapper generation, it was accepted by Scribner's in the fall of 1919, and Zelda and Scott resumed their engagement. Scott returned to his parents' house at 599 Summit Avenue, on Cathedral Hill, in St. Working at an advertising firm and writing short stories, he was unable to convince Zelda that he would be able to support her, leading her to break off the engagement. The two were engaged in 1919, and Fitzgerald moved into an apartment at 1935 Lexington Avenue in New York City to try to lay a foundation for his life with Zelda. While at a country club, Fitzgerald met Zelda Sayre (1900–1948), the "golden girl", in Fitzgerald's words, of Montgomery, Alabama youth society. A poor student, Fitzgerald left Princeton to enlist in the US Army during World War I however, the war ended shortly after Fitzgerald's enlistment. He was a member of the University Cottage Club, which still displays Fitzgerald's desk and writing materials in its library. His absorption in the Triangle-a kind of musical-comedy society-led to his submission of a novel to Charles Scribner's Sons where the editor praised the writing but ultimately rejected the book. There he became friends with future critics and writers Edmund Wilson (Class of 1916) and John Peale Bishop (Class of 1917), and wrote for the Princeton Triangle Club. He attended Newman School, a prep school in Hackensack, New Jersey, in 1911–1912, and entered Princeton University in 1913 as a member of the Class of 1917. His first literary effort, a detective story, was published in a school newspaper when he was 12. When his father was fired from Procter & Gamble, the family returned to Minnesota, where Fitzgerald attended St. He spent 1898–1901 in Syracuse and 1903–1908 in Buffalo, New York, where he attended Nardin Academy. He was also named after his deceased sister Louise Scott, one of two sisters who died shortly before his birth. Paul, Minnesota, to an upper middle class Irish Catholic family, Fitzgerald was named after his famous second cousin, three times removed, Francis Scott Key, but was referred to as "Scott". Fitzgerald also wrote many short stories that treat themes of youth and promise along with despair and age.īorn in St. A fifth, unfinished novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon was published posthumously.
He finished four novels, This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender Is the Night and his most famous, the celebrated classic, The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s.
He is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (Septem– December 21, 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigm writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself.
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