The author known as Scott Fitzgerald is considered a notable writer of the Jazz Age period for his novels, "short stories" such as "The Great Gatsby." Throughout Scott Fitzgerald's life, his works proved to be of great value and impact on the world of literature. Born into an upper-middle-class family in 1898 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Fitzgerald was named after his famous first cousin Francis Scott Key, but he eventually went by the colloquial name Scott Fitzgerald. He is also named after his late sister, Louise Scott, one of two sisters who died shortly before his birth. “Well, three months before I was born, my mother lost her other two children…I think that’s when I started becoming a writer.” His parents were Mollie (McQuillan) and Edward Fitzgerald. His mother was of Irish descent and his father was of Irish and English descent.Fitzgerald spent the first decade of his childhood primarily in Buffalo, New York, with a short period in Syracuse, New York. His parents, who were both very serious Catholics, sent Fitzgerald to two Catholic schools on the west side of Buffalo, called Holy Angels Convent and then Nardin Academy. His influential years in Buffalo revealed him to be a boy of unusual intelligence and dynamism, with a keen interest in literature, his caring mother ensuring that her son had all the advantages of a middle-class background . Somewhat unusually, Fitzgerald attended Holy Angels with the distinction of only going for half a day. In 1908, the family returned to Minnesota, where Fitzgerald attended St. Paul Academy in St. Paul. At the age of 13, one of his writings was published for the first time in the school newspaper. In 1911, Fitzgerald's parents sent... middle of paper ... his death that Fitzgerald "was better than he thought, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a generation... He could have interpreted and even guided them, as in their middle years they saw a different, nobler freedom threatened with destruction” Fitzgerald is a 2009 inductee into the New Jersey Hall of Fame. In honor of Fitzgerald, the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota, is named after him. So with all of Fitzgerald's ups and downs, tragedies, successes and hard work, he made it his goal to achieve a lifestyle that made his work remarkable and entertaining for audiences. , but never received any major awards, therefore considering himself an "outsider" compared to Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway and Walt Whitman. This essay explains how and where Scott Fitzgerald lived, with an opinion piece that shows why Fitzgerald and his work are notable in the Jazz Age.