Francis Scott Fitzgerald Biography

I find my name, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, to be an appropriate title for an author like me. I was named after my father’s distant relative, Francis Scott Key. You may know him as the man who wrote the national anthem. My father was a businessman and a balled up bird. My mother was the darb who brought in the dough from her inheritance. It was just my father, mother, and my sister, Annabel, and I in St. Paul, Minnesota.
The idea of school was never keen on me; It’s applesauce.
I went to Princeton purely for their social clubs; They were the berries. At Princeton, I was no mathlete. As a barb, I wrote poems and stories for literary magazines such as the Tiger and plays for the Triangle Club. A swell job done if I do say so myself. After “a …show more content…
Zelda was diagnosed with schizophrenia and medical bills came in on top of Scottie’s tuition. I needed rubes so I wrote feverishly. I sold to whoever would buy; I wrote screenplays for Hollywood, essays for magazines, and I was working on a novel titled Tender Is the Night.
I’m going to level with you; my writing was trash during this time, ab-so-lute-ly trash. I was just writing as fast as could. I had lost touch with the people; Don't know from nothing about the interests of people
Writing is my business, my passion, and a lifelong pursuit. I write because I have something to …show more content…
I want to say society is cynical greed running on no morals. All my novels were semi-autobiographical. This Side of Paradise, which I originally had titled ‘The Romantic Egotist,’ closely follows my own life. I even used Zelda’s letters and medical records in Tender is the Night. I never got to finish the book, but my inspiration for The Last Tycoon was my time in Hollywood. I’m left holding the bag, but I am guilty as charged. Our generation is bankrupt on morals, self-centered, and nuanced from cynicism. We all want money for us and only us. Some may say the 20s was a time of prosperity, but we did not prosper in