F. Scott Fitzgerald

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This paper looks at the life and early works of F. Scott Fitzgerald. It begins by describing his childhood and upbringing. It looks at his personal life, marriage, and parenthood. It discusses some of his early works and the attitudes of critics toward him in his early days.

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"Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota. His given names indicate his parent's pride in his father's distant cousin who authored the National Anthem (Brief pg). Fitzgerald attended St. Paul Academy where his first writing appeared in the school newspaper when he was thirteen years old. At Princeton in 1917, he focused his attention on his literary apprenticeship, writing scripts and lyrics for the Princeton Triangle Club musicals and contributing to the Princeton Tiger humor magazine and the Nassau Literary Magazine (Brief pg). Having neglected his studies and unlikely to graduate, Fitzgerald joined the army that year and convinced that he was going to die in the war, he quickly wrote his first novel, "The Romantic Egotist" and submitted it to Charles Scribner's Sons for publication (Brief pg). While stationed at Camp Sheridan, outside Montgomery, Alabama, in 1918, he met and fell in love with Zelda Sayre, the eighteen year old daughter of an Alabama Supreme Court judge (Brief pg). He was discharged in 1919 and moved to New York to pursue his career (Brief pg)."

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