F. Scott Fitzgerald F. Scott Fitzgerald said: “I am no great man, but I sometimes think that the impersonal and objective quality of my talent, and its sacrifices, piecemeal, to preserve its essential value have a kind of epic grandeur” (“ F. Scott Fitzgerald” St. James). Fitzgerald had severe drinking problems and faced many financial failures during his writing life, but he proved to be gifted in many ways of writing. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was a short story writer, essayist, and novelist famous during the Jazz Age of the 1920s and the Great Depression of the 1930s.F. Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896, in St. Paul, Minnesota, to Edward Fitzgerald and Mary McQuillan. Fitzgerald met Zelda Sayre when he was stationed near Montgomery, Alabama. Zelda was eighteen years old at the time and the daughter of Judge Anthony Dickinson Sayre and Minnie Machen Sayre. Fitzgerald later married Zelda Sayre on April 3, 1920 (American "F. Scott Fitzgerald"). They had a child together and named her Frances Scott ("Francis"). When Fitzgerald was forty-four he died of a heart attack on December 21, 1940 in Hollywood, California (“F. Scott Fitzgerald” St. James). Scott Fitzgerald studied at the Newman School, a Catholic prep school found in New Jersey (“F. Scott Fitzgerald” St. James). Fitzgerald played for their football team (“American F. Scott Fitzgerald”). He spent two years at the Newman School, then enrolled at Princeton in 1913. He was placed on probation in 1917 and figured it was highly unlikely for him to graduate. So he left Princeton and went into the army (“F. Scott Fitzgerald” St. James). In addition to being a writer, Fitzgerald was also a soldier for about fifteen years... middle of paper... .and rich and famous. So he wrote many short stories for mass-circulation magazine articles, which he ended up writing all his life ("F. Scott Fitzgerald" St. James). Even though Fitzgerald had many failures, he never gave up and became more famous after he died. Fitzgerald is very dedicated and wrote countless drafts for everything he wrote ("F. Scott Fitzgerald" St. James). Works Cited"F. Scott Fitzgerald". St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture. Ed. Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast. Detroit: St. James Press, 2000. Biography in context. Network. April 4, 2014. "F. Scott Fitzgerald." American decades. Ed. Judith S. Baughman, et al. Detroit: Gale, 1998. Biography in context. Network. April 4, 2014. “Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald.” Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Sons of Charles Scribner, 1944. Biography in context. Network. April 4. 2014.