https://padlet.com/nadirashehadeh/rh6icopoetrpv9q By: Isabella Villaran, Martin Mantilla, Nadira Shehadeh, Ignacio Añorga, and Andre Arevalo. en-us 2021-05-21 14:53:16 UTC 2025-11-09 22:36:47 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/nadirashehadeh/rh6icopoetrpv9q/wish/1548159383 He wrote 4 complete novels and wasn't able to finish the fifth one. These were:
~ This Side of Paradise
~  The Beautiful and Damned
~ The Great Gatsby
~ Tender is the Night
~ The Last Tycoon (unfinished)

Francis also wrote more amazing texts. He wrote 43 short stories, he developed a play with one story he wrote, he also published a collection of essays, He also helped in writing a screenplay called "A Yank at Oxford".
 ]]> 2021-05-21 15:38:22 UTC https://padlet.com/nadirashehadeh/rh6icopoetrpv9q/wish/1548159383 https://padlet.com/nadirashehadeh/rh6icopoetrpv9q/wish/1548205789 -He was born on september 24 1896.
He passed the biggest part of his childhood in Minnesota due to his fathers job.
-It was till 1908 that he moved to upstate New York.
-His father lost his job, so his family moved again to St. Paul, Minnesota.
-When he was 13, he published a detective story that was published on his school newspaper.
-He was very bad on the academic aspect because he was expelled from his school for lack of academic effort. 
- He was sent to a cristian school in New Jersey called Newman. 

]]> 2021-05-21 15:48:58 UTC https://padlet.com/nadirashehadeh/rh6icopoetrpv9q/wish/1548205789 nadirashehadeh https://padlet.com/nadirashehadeh/rh6icopoetrpv9q/wish/1548206984 - Was a short story writer and a novelist.

- He was an ambitious and handsome boy. 

- When he was 15 years old, his parents sent him to a Catholic preparatory school in New Jersey.

- There he met Father Sigourney Fay, who noticed his talent and encourage him to pursue literary.

- After graduating he stayed in New Jersey and attended to Princeton University. 

- Sadly in 1917 he dropped out of school to join the U.S army.

- Before reporting to duty for WWI, he wrote a novel, and the publisher didn't like it but he said that he should submit more work in the future. 

- After the war ended, he went to NYC and marry a girl named Zelda.

- They had a child named Frances Fitzgerald. 

-  In the late 20s, Zelda started suffering mental problems, she was diagnosed with schizophrenia, and after visiting a lot of hospitals she died in 1948. 

- Sadly, Francis Scott Fitzgerald died in 1940, from a heart attack at the age of 44 in Hollywood, California. ]]> 2021-05-21 15:49:14 UTC https://padlet.com/nadirashehadeh/rh6icopoetrpv9q/wish/1548206984 https://padlet.com/nadirashehadeh/rh6icopoetrpv9q/wish/1548209260 -During his lifetime , he published four novels, four collections of short stories. 

-His most brilliant novel is the Great Gatsby.

-Scott Fitzgerald did not win many awards during his lifetime, he was invited to the New Jersey Hall of Fame by the U.S state of New Jersey.

-He achieved popular success and fortune in the 1920s. He is named as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.

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https://www.biography.com/writer/f-scott-fitzgerald

https://www.britannica.com/bio


]]> 2021-05-21 15:54:55 UTC https://padlet.com/nadirashehadeh/rh6icopoetrpv9q/wish/1548232287 https://padlet.com/nadirashehadeh/rh6icopoetrpv9q/wish/1558180584 The dominant infuences on Francis were aspirations, literaure, princeton, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald and alcohol. Fitzgerrald frequented Europe, where he was influenced by the Modernist writers and artists of the Lost Generation expatriate community, particularly Ernest Hemingway. His second novel, The Beautiful and Damned in 1922, propelled him into the New York City elite. Francis practically  present his life through his writing because all his life experiences and importat people in his life influenced him.]]> 2021-05-25 15:51:55 UTC https://padlet.com/nadirashehadeh/rh6icopoetrpv9q/wish/1558180584 isabellavillaran https://padlet.com/nadirashehadeh/rh6icopoetrpv9q/wish/1558193312 Zelda Sayre
Zelda Sayre, who later changed her last name to Fitzgerald, was a celibrity, novelist and jazz dancer born in the USA.  She became an icon when, due to Scott, she became the frist flapper in the US after "This Side of Paradise".

Zelda and Francis Scott met on July of 1918. Their love story began with him falling completly in love with her. He called her eveyday and went to visit her on his free days. He was so in love with her that he even re-wrote a character from his novel to make it more like Zelda.

Zelda inspired Scott to write a lot. He mentions that Zelda was mor than a simple muse. They first met on a train station, which was a moment that will never be forgotten since he portrayed it on his famous novel "The Great Gatsby". He also quote some of her words on his novels.

Zelda was a wanted woman by those times, but they both fell in love so hard that nothing could go between them.

They got married and became New York celebrities and icons due to their savage and fun way of living. People looked upon them in many ways. 

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