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F . Scott Fitzgerald, born on
September 24,1896, an American novelist, was once a student of St. Paul Academy,
the Newman School
and attended Princeton. University for a short
while. In 1917 he joined the army and was posted in Alabama, where he met his future wife Zelda
Sayre. Then he had to make some money to impress her. His life with her was
full of great happiness, as he wrote in his diary : “ My own happiness in the past
often approached such joy that I could share it even with the person dearest to
me but had to walk it away in quiet streets and take down parts of it in my
diary.” This side of paradise, his first novel, was published in 1920.
encouraged by its success, Fitzgerald began to devote more time to his writing.
Then he continued with the novel the Beautiful and Damned (1922), a collection
of short stories Thales of the Jazz Age (1922), and a play The Vegetable
(1923). But his greatest success was The Great Gatsby, published in 1925,which
quick brought him praise from the literary world. Yet it failed to give him the
needed financial security. Then, in 1926, he published another collection lf
short stories All the Sad Young Men.However, Fitzgerald’s problems with his
wife Zelda affected his writing. During the 1920s he tried to reorder his life,
but failed. By 1930, his wife had her first breakdown and went to a Swiss
clinic. During this period he completed novels Tender Is the Night in 1934 and
The love of the last Tycoon in 1940. while his wife was in hospital in the
United States, he got totally addicted to alcohol. Sheila Graham, his dear
friend, helped him fight his alcoholism.