F. Scott Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and was named after a distant relative, the author of The Star-Spangled Banner. He attended Princeton University, where he wrote for student theatrical and literary magazines, but left to join the army in 1917. While stationed in Alabama he met Zelda Sayre. His first novel, This Side of Paradise (1920), about a young man at Princeton, was a great success, and he and Zelda married that year. They became celebrities of what he called the Jazz Age, living in New York and on the French Riviera, and he wrote many short stories for magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post. The Great Gatsby (1925), about the mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his longing for Daisy Buchanan, sold modestly at first but is now considered one of the great American novels. Zelda's mental illness, his own drinking and money troubles marked his later years. Tender Is the Night appeared in 1934. He worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood, where he died in 1940.

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Faith: Raised Catholic; he was a non-practicing Catholic in adulthood. Source: Wikipedia