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September 24, 1896, Saint Paul, MN
Died: December 21, 1940, Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA

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He was the only son of an unsuccessful, aristocratic father and an energetic,  provincial  mother. Half of the time he thought of himself as the heir of his fathers tradition, which included the author of "The star spangled banner" by Francis Scott Key who he was named after As a result he had typically ambivalent American feelings about American life.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American fiction writer, whose works helped to illustrate the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age. While he achieved popular success, fame, and fortune in his lifetime, he did not receive much critical acclaim until after his death.

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He was very known figure in  literary life of the university and made lifelong friendships with Edmund Wilson and John Peale Bishop. He became a leading figure in the socially important Triangle Club,  a dramatic society, and was elected to one of the leading clubs of the university.

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Fitzgerald struggled with alcoholism throughout his life. It’s likely that his heavy drinking contributed to his early death: Fitzgerald died of a heart attack on December 21, 1940, in Hollywood, California, at age 44. He had not yet completed his fifth novel, The Last Tycoon.

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He had an intense romantic imagination, what he called," a heightened sensitivity to the promises of life,” and he charged into experience determined to realize those promises. When he attend both St. Paul Academy and Newman School he would try too hard and this got to be very unpopular. Once he got to Princeton he came close to realize his dream of a brilliant success.

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https://www.biography.com/video/f-scott-fitzgerald-his-literary-legacy-2238073880