Sunday, May 16, 2010

Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born September 24th, 1896. He was born in St. Paul Minnesota, to an Irish upper middle class family. He was part of a Roman Catholic family. Francis Scott Fitzgerald was named after his famous second cousin Francis Scott Key. Fitzgerald attended St. Paul Academy in St. Paul from 1908–1911.
Francis Scott Fitzgerald’s first literary effort was a detective story that was published in his school newspaper when he was only 12 years old. Francis Scott Fitzgerald later got expelled from school when he was 16 for neglecting his studies. In 1913 he entered Princeton University when he became friends with future critics and writers Edmund Wilson and John Peale Bishop. He also wrote for the Princeton Triangle Club and this led to his submission of a novel to Charles Scribner's Sons. Charles Scribner's Sons loved the novel but rejected it.
Francis Scott Fitzgerald was an American author of novels and short stories.
He wrote stories that showed the jazz age. He is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. He finished four novels and he had one unfinished novel called “The Love of the Last Tycoon”. Francis Scott Fitzgerald also wrote many short stories.
(http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/biography.html)

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  1. Good pictures and post. Make sure to write in your own words. 70/75

    Ms. Donahue

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