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Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
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24 September 1896 - 21 December 1940
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He was born on September 24, 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota, by birth Irish. The name was given in honor of the author of the American anthem Francis Scott Kay, who was a distant relative of him. In 1913, he joined Princeton, but four years later he decided to leave until he was expelled for failure and enlisted in the army. The First World War bypassed him; in 1919, Fitzgerald was demobilized, worked as an advertising agent for some time, but soon became interested in literary creativity and quickly
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He was born on September 24, 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota, by birth Irish. The name was given in honor of the author of the American anthem Francis Scott Kay, who was a distant relative of him. In 1913, he joined Princeton, but four years later he decided to leave until he was expelled for failure and enlisted in the army. The First World War bypassed him; in 1919, Fitzgerald was demobilized, worked as an advertising agent for some time, but soon became interested in literary creativity and quickly made a name for himself in the writing field. In 1924 he went to Europe, where he joined the Parisian circle of Gertrude Stein. It was in Europe that he wrote the novel The Great Gatsby (1925); there he became addicted to alcohol, and this addiction quickly became public and caused his dismissal from Hollywood, where Fitzgerald got a job as a screenwriter on his return to America in 1937. The writer died on December 21, 1940.