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1 F. Scott FITZGERALD

2 Family Named for his cousin Married Zelda Sayre
Had one child, Frances Scott Fitzgerald Late in Life Fell in love with Sheilah Graham

3 Background Born St. Paul, Minnesota, 1896 Four years Princeton
Army during WWI Lived in New York

4 Early Works Started with periodicals Tales of the Jazz Age
This Side of Paradise Frightened of fame and prosperity

5 Bumps in the Road Alcohol abuse Didn’t see his daughter much
Wife went crazy; died in 1948 Wrote The Crack Up (downward spiral)

6 Most Famous Works The Great Gatsby Tender Is The Night The Last Tycoon
The Beautiful and the Damned

7 Lifestyle Extravagant living Experienced both sides of American Dream
World Traveler Moved many times

8 Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald
Born 1900, Montgomery, Alabama Artist, Writer, and Dancer Pursuit of Dancing career caused first nervous breakdown Wrote her only novel from the hospital

9 His Last Years Continued fight with alcohol Died of a heart attack
December 21, 1940 in Graham’s apartment Believed himself a failure

10 Works Cited A Brief Life of Fitzgerald University of South Carolina. 6 February The Sensible Thing: Biographies. PBS. 5 February F. Scott Fitzgerald Biography Biography.com. 4 February F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby C-SPAN. 4 February

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