Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American author of novels
and short stories, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest
American writers of the 20th century. Find out more about this
literary icon and his work after the jump! Fitzgerald was born
on September 24, 1896 to an upper middle class family in Saint
Paul, Minnesota. His childhood though, was spent primarily in
Buffalo, New York when his father’s attempt at a furniture
business failed, and he had to take a job as a salesman for
Procter & Gamble. When Fitzgerald was ten years however, his
father was fired from his job and the family had to return to
Minnesota. Fitzgerald was 13 years old when his first literary
effort, a detective story, was published in a school newspaper.
In 1913, he moved to New Jersey to further pursue his literary
ambition at Princeton University, writing scripts for the
Princeton Triangle Club (a distinguished musical-comedy
society), the Princeton Tiger, and the Nassau Literary Magazine.
In 1917, Fitzgerald dropped out of