F. Scott Fitzgerald F. Scott Fitzgerald said: “I am not a great man, but sometimes I think that the impersonal, objective quality of my talent, and the sacrifices it makes, in pieces, to preserve its essential value, have a kind of epic grandeur” (“F. Scott Fitzgerald” St.James). Fitzgerald had serious drinking problems and faced many financial failures throughout his writing life, but proved gifted in many ways of writing. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was a short story writer, essayist, and novelist who was most famous during the Jazz Age of the 1920s and the Great Depression of the 1930s.F. Scott Fitzgerald was born September 24, 1896, in St. Paul, Minnesota, to Edward Fitzgerald and Mary McQuillan. Fitzgerald met Zelda Sayre while stationed near Montgomery, Alabama. Zelda was eighteen years old at the time and the daughter of Judge Anthony Dickinson Sayre and Minnie Machen Sayre. Fitzgerald later married Zelda Sayre on April 3, 1920 (American "F. Scott Fitzgerald"). They had a child together and named her Frances Scott ("Francis"). When Fitzgerald was forty-four years old, he died of a heart attack on December 21, 1940, in Hollywood, California ("F. Scott Fitzgerald" St. James).F. Scott Fitzgerald studied at the Newman School, a Catholic preparatory school located in New Jersey ("F. Scott Fitzgerald" St. James). Fitzgerald played for their football team (American F. Scott Fitzgerald). He spent two years at the Newman School, then enrolled at Princeton in 1913. He was placed on academic probation in 1917 and felt it was very unlikely that he would graduate. So he left Princeton and went into the army (“F. Scott Fitzgerald” St. James). In addition to being a writer, Fitzgerald was also a soldier for about fifteen...... middle of paper ..... .e rich and famous. So he wrote many short stories for popular magazine articles, which he ended up doing all his life ("F. Scott Fitzgerald" St. James). Even though Fitzgerald experienced many failures, he still never gave up and became more famous after he died. Fitzgerald is very dedicated and wrote countless drafts for everything he wrote ("F. Scott Fitzgerald" St. James). Works Cited “F. Scott Fitzgerald.” St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture. Ed. Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast. Detroit: St. James Press, 2000. Biography in Context. Internet. April 4, 2014. “F. Scott Fitzgerald.” American Decades. Ed. Judith S. Baughman et al. Detroit: Gale, 1998. Biography in Context. Internet. April 4, 2014. “Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald.” Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1944. Biography in context. Internet. April 4. 2014.