F. Scott Fitzgerald, born Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, was born on September 24, 1896 and died on December 21, 1940. He married Zelda Sayre, the daughter of an Alabama Supreme Court Justice, but only after she broke off their engagement because she was afraid that he would be unable to provide for her and any kids that they may have in the future. After his book, This Side of Paradise, about his years as an undergraduate at Princeton was published in March 26, 1920. Fitzgerald Fitzgerald was a notorious drinker and that is what is presumed to have led to the decline of his health. In 1919, he suffered a tuberculosis attack that left him with a hemorrhage, but some disspell this and say his hemorrhage was actually caused by a bleeding esophagus,
