F.+Scott+Fitzgerald+(author)

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__**F. SCOTT FITZGERALD (1896 - 1940)**__

 * F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in Minnesota. He was born of mixed Southern****and Irish descent. Fitzgerald was the an only child with a salesman of a father, Edward Fitzgerald. His father's furniture business had failed. His mother, Mary McQuillan was a daughter of a successfuly wholesale grocer. She was said to be very devoted to her only son. This family moved around regularly, but settled in Scott's birthtown, St. Paul, in 1918. Fitzgerald fell in love with the 16-year-old Ginerva king at the age of 18. He published his first story in the year of 1909. He entered the Princeton University in 1913, failing to be a football hero and so decided to leave his studies in 1917 because of his poor academic records and went into the US Army.**
 * In the year 1918, F. Scott Fitzgerald met and married Zelda Sayre, an aspiriring writer he met while working in an advertising agency in New York. That same year, his first novel was published. However, things soon starting to pile up for fitzgerald, his debts started to grow and Zelda soon found out that she was pregnant. That did not stop the baby from****coming, being born in 1921.**