Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in Saint Paul Minnesota and educated at Princeton.
Stationed in Alabama he met and later married Zelda Sayre. His first novel This Side of
Paradise published in 1920 was a tremendous critical and commercial success. Fitzgerald
followed with The Beautiful and the Damned in 1922 The Great Gatsby in 1925 and Tender is the
Night in 1934. He was working on The Last Tycoon (1941) when he died in Hollywood in 1940.
