After the Great War, new writers emerged, as did many cultural aspects of America, such as music, poetry, and art. Americans were looking for a place to express themselves. New York was becoming the cultural center of the new American life. American writers were slowly being discovered and this era is called modernism. F. Scott Fitzgerald was one of those writers who quickly began to express themselves through literature during the era of modernism. Scott Fitzgerald is best known for his mostly autobiographical writings. F. Scott Fitzgerald is famous not only for his writings, but also for his life. F. Scott Fitzgerald was a master novelist, short story writer, and essayist. F. Scott Fitzgerald is extremely well known throughout the world as a writer of the Jazz Age of the 1920s and the Great Depression of the 1930s. F. Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896. He was the only son of an aristocratic father and a working-class mother. Fitzgerald enrolled at St. Paul Academy when he was a little boy. The first story ever written by F. Scott Fitzgerald was called The Mystery of the Raymond Mortgage. It was a detective novel published in his school newspaper. After attending St. Paul Academy, he studied at a school called Newman School in New Jersey. In the fall of 1913, F. Scott Fitzgerald entered Princeton to pursue a degree in literature. “While he was collagemaking, he wrote musicals for the Princeton Triangle Club and also contributed articles to the Princeton Tiger and Nassau Literary Magazine.” (St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, 1) Fitzgerald was enormously devoted to his literary life. After a few years of collage, he began to be careless when it came to his studies....... middle of paper ....... rald continued to write essays, stories for magazines and spent time in Hollywood as a contract drafter. After everything horrible he had been through, he was finally starting to improve his life. He no longer drank and even had a relationship with film columnist Sheilah Graham. "He was also finishing his final story called The Last Tycoon, but on December 21, 1940, Fitzgerald died of a heart attack while in Graham's apartment." (Roaring Twenties Reference Library. Ed. Kelly King Howes. Vol. 2: Biographies, 4) Since the death of F. Scott Fitzgerald, many of us have been familiar with many of his stories. At least a dozen of his stories occupy an important place in American literature. He will always be known as a major American writer. The stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald are a colossal and magnificent piece of literature that will never be forgotten.