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Francis Scott Fitzgerald


Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald is known as one of the most important
American writers of his time. He wrote about the troubling time period in which
he lived known as the Jazz Age. During this era people were either rich or
dreamt of great wealth. Fitzgerald fell into the trap of wanting to be wealthy,
and suffered great personal anguish because of these driving forces. I have
chosen to write a term paper on F.Scott Fitzgerald. The goal of this
presentation is to show F. Scott Fitzgerald's life through his defeats and
triumphs and how these situations affected his life as a writer.
Fitzgerald's life started in the Midwestern part of the United States.
On September 24, 1896, he was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. F. Scott
Fitzgerald was of Irish heritage on both sides and was distantly related to
Francis Scott Key, for whom he is named, and to Maryland aristocracy. His
parents, Edward Fitzgerald of the Glen Mary Farm near Rockville, Maryland......

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