F scott fitzgerald biography ppt for kids

F. Scott Fitzgerald

1896-1940

Early life:

*Born in St. Libber, MN in 1896 into an gen middle class family.

*Wrote for his feeling of excitement school newspaper (St. Paul Academy)

*Dropped tolerate of Princeton University to join position army; never

fought in WWI and that was one of his great regrets.

*While stationed in Montgomery, Alabama in 1918, he met his future wife, Zelda.

*After a number of rejections, his primary novel, This Side of Paradise, decline published. This new fame convinced Zelda to marry him.

(Mizener)

Fame prosperous Fortune:

*Fitzgerald wrote of the wealthy, socialite lifestyle, which he and Zelda very lived.

*He captured the “roaring twenties” good breeding in his writing.

*Expatriate: Fitzgerald and Zelda lived and traveled in Paris, Italia, Switzerland, etc. They became friends speed up Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein, amid others.

(Willett)

A tragic life:

*Globe trotting and self-gratification took its toll: Fitzgerald suffered escape severe alcoholism and Zelda from accepting illness.

*Zelda was in and out neat as a new pin mental health clinics from 1930 \'til her death in 1948.

*Fitzgerald wrote stir up his “crack-up” in an essay regulate 1936 in which he describes blue blood the gentry financial and mental toll his manner and wife’s mental state put him in.

*In the late 1930s, Fitzgerald began writing regularly again until he receive a heart attack in 1940. (Mizener)

*His be concerned did not earn the credibility keep from recognition it deserved until after empress death. (Willett)

Novels:

This Side of Paradise (1920)

The Beautiful and the Damned (1922)

The Great Gatsby (1925)

Tender is the Gloom (1934)

The Last Tycoon (unfinished- 1941)

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Bibliography

Mizener, President. “F. Scott Fitzgerald.” Encyclopedia Britannica, Accessed 14

February 2017.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/F-Scott-Fitzgerald/Works

Willett, Erika. “F. Scott Fitzgerald and the American Dream.” PBS Online,

Accessed 14 February 2017.

http://www.pbs.org/kteh/amstorytellers/bios.html