his family moved back to St. Paul to live off of his mother's inheritance.
when he was 13, he saw his first piece of writing appear in print: a detective story published in the school newspaper.
when Fitzgerald was 15 years old, his parents sent him to the Newman School, a prestigious Catholic preparatory school in New Jersey. There, he met Father Sigourney Fay, who noticed his incipient talent with the written word and encouraged him to pursue
he met a beautiful women at camp and got married
Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s
scott published his second novel the beautiful and the damned
The novel was published in 1920 to glowing reviews and, almost overnight, turned Fitzgerald, at the age of 24, into one of the country's most promising young writers. with the great Gasby
during his late 20's scott stated making more and more books and stories