Tko Je Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

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WHO WAS FRANCIS SCOTT KEY FITZGERALD ?

‘The greatest American author

Of 20th Century’

September 24,1896 – December 21,1940

‘Jazz Age’

S I S T E R

DEAD!

Oh no ! My sister is dead ! Let me become a writer !

Catholic school in Buffalo

Unusual intelligence and interest in literature lol

First short story – age 13

1911. – Father Sigurney Fay discovers his talent

Went to Princeton University - first book rejection

Joins U.S Army in World War 1 – school drop out

Meets Zelda Sayre in trening camp – falls in love

War ended in 1918 before he was deployed

1920. – Zelda becomes Fitzgerald

THIS

SIDE OF PARADISE – debut novel

1920s – living in Paris with family – befriends Ernest Hemingway

Whoring – selling short stories to magazines and Hollywood – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Great debts – Zelda’s medical bills and Francis alcoholism

THE GREAT GATSBY in 1925. – no success

TENDER IS THE NIGHT – follow up to The Great Gatsby

The Love of the Last Tycoon – unfinished novel

Diagnosed Tuberculosis – 2 heart attacks – third one lethal in 1940.

4 completed novels – 1 published posthumously

Without great success during his life – discovery after death

The Great Gatsby – the greatest American novel of 20th century and second best English language novel

F. Scott Fitzgerald 1896. – 1940.

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