F. Scott Fitzgerald
Name of Author: Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
Born: September 24, 1896
Died: December 21, 1940 (at the age of 44)
Years Active: 1920–1940
Spouse (s): Zelda Sayre
Works: This Side of Paradise, “Bernice Bobs Her Hair”, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”, The Beautiful and Damned, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, “Winter Dreams”, The Great Gatsby, “Babylon Revisited”, Tender Is the Night and The Last Tycoon.
LEARN MORE ABOUT F. SCOTT FITZGERALD:
• He had one child with his wife— Zelda Sayre.
• He was best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age—a term he popularized.
• He was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S
• After his wife Zelda was diagnosed with schizophrenia and was placed in the mental institution, he met the columnist Sheilah Graham, and she became his final companion before his death.
• He attended Princeton University where he befriended future literary critic Edmund Wilson.
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