Francis Scott Kay Fitzgerald was a famous American writer, a prominent representative of the "jazz era", that is, the times from the post-war period to the Great Depression. This writer belongs to the American classics. Fitzgerald's work includes novels, short stories, plays, nonfiction and film scripts.
Biography
Scott Fitzgerald was born on 09.24.1896 in St. Paul (Minnesota). His parents were wealthy Irish and belonged to the Catholic Church. Francis was a very long-awaited child, because two children died in the family before him. Scott graduated from St. Paul Academy in 1910, Newman School in 1913, and studied at Princeton University until 1917. As a student, Fitzgerald led an active social life, played football, wrote and participated in literary competitions. Even then, he was going to become a real writer. Despite the fact that his parents were able to provide Scott with a good education, he often felt uncomfortable among the richer, spoiled fellow students. It was then that he was struck by the topic of class inequality.
In 1917, Francis volunteered for the army. His military career went well, he was promoted to Adjutant to General J. A. Ryan. Upon his return from the army, Scott worked in advertising in New York from 1919, but did not abandon his attempts to become a writer. An additional incentive to achieve success in the literary field for Fitzgerald was the desire to win the heart of Zelda Sayr, the daughter of an Alabama judge, a beauty from a more than wealthy and famous family.
Creation
Many literary agencies and publishing houses returned Fitzgerald's manuscripts over and over again. Scott was very upset by the setbacks and began to drink. Due to alcoholism, he lost his job and returned to his parental home. The walls of his family gave him confidence, and Francis worked hard on The Romantic Egoist. Subsequently, the title was changed to On This Side of Paradise, and the work itself was published in 1920. In the same year, Scott, already a successful debutant, is married to his beloved. The sensation that created the first novel of the writer gives a powerful impetus to his work: Fitzgerald's works are printed in magazines and newspapers, Scott's wealth is growing, and inspiration does not leave him. A chic mansion, trips to Europe, receptions and the title of king of his generation appear in his life.
In 1925 his most famous novel, The Great Gatsby, was published, and a year later, All These Sad Young Men. But misfortune comes to the writer's house: his wife Zelda loses her mind, and doctors admit their helplessness in trying to cure her. Fitzgerald suffers from this and begins to drink even more. In 1930, his wife was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Scott poured his pain into the pages of the novel Tender Night, which was published in 1934. The work contains many autobiographical moments.
Since 1937, Fitzgerald has been working as a Hollywood screenwriter and has an affair with Sheela Graham. His alcoholism makes itself felt and negatively affects the behavior of the writer. Scott's contemporaries have noted his fits of violence and violence. In 1939, Francis begins the novel "The Last Tycoon", but does not manage to finish the work, since he dies on 1940-21-12 from a heart attack. Death overtook him in Hollywood at the age of 44.
