Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, better known as F. Scott Fitzgerald, was a great American writer from the Jazz age (“F. Scott Fitzgerald | American Writer”). During his lifetime he wrote many novels and short stories based on youth, distress, and age ("F Scott Fitzgerald." Books). Fitzgerald was also one of the most inspiring writers of the Lost Generation, a group of writers who matured during World War I ("F. Scott Fitzgerald." Shmoop.com).
Early Life
Born in Saint Paul, Minnesota on September 24, 1896 to Edward Fitzgerald and Mary McQuillan, Fitzgerald was son to a “failed wicker furniture salesman” and an “Irish immigrant with a large inheritance.” In his younger years, “he attended both St. Paul academy and Newman school”