Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American writer of stories and short novels, whose books are the paradigm writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American authors of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the Lost Generation of the 1920s. He finished four stories, This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender is the Night and his most famous, The Great Gatsby. A fifth, unfinished novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon was released posthumously. Fitzgerald also created many short novels that treat themes of youth and promise along with despair and age.
Stories such as The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night were made into movies, and in 1958 his life from 1937 1940 was dramatized in Beloved Infidel.
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Born in 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota to an upper middle class Irish Catholic family, Fitzgerald was called after his famous second cousin, three times removed, Francis Scott Key, but was referred to as Scott. He was also called after his deceased sister, Jean Scott, one of two sisters who passed away shortly before his birth. His parents were Mollie and Edward Fitzgerald.
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Scott spent the first decade of his childhood primarily in Buffalo, New York. His parents, both practicing Catholics, sent Scott to two Catholic schools on the West Side of Buffalo, first Holy Angels Convent and then Nardin Academy.
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