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Date of birth
He was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S. -
Bufalo,New York
The city where Scott lived when he was 2 years old -
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Where does he live?
He spent his childhood primarily in Buffalo, New York where his father worked for Procter & Gamble. -
Syracuse, New York
The city where Scott lived from the age of 5 to the age of 7 -
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He move to...
During this period he lived in Syracuse, New York. -
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Studies
His parents were Catholic, so they sent Scott to two Catholic schools.First to Holy Angels Convent (1903-1904) and then to Nardin Academy (1905-1908).In 1908, his father was fired from Procter & Gamble and they returned to Minnesota, where Fitzgerald attended St. Paul Academy from 1908 to 1911.In 1911, his parents sent him to Newman Institute, in Hackensack, New Jersey. He graduated from Newman in 1914 and decided to stay there and go to Princeton University, but in 1917 he dropped out. -
Princeton University
He decided to focus on his work as a writer and did not give much importance to the university and in 1917 he abandoned it to join the United States Army during World War I. -
This Side of Paradise
The book tells and analyzes the moral of the young protagonist in times of war. Amory Blaine, a wealthy and handsome student at Princeton University who spends most of his time writing. -
The Beautiful and Damned
Anthony Junior pretends to do nothing for a living but wait for the death of his billionaire grandfather, Adam Patch. He marries Gloria and then they waste their money on trivial expenses, especially throwing parties. They are American aristocrats who live off family income. On one occasion, Anthony and Gloria throw a party and by surprise Anthony's grandfather visits them, from that moment he does not receive any more money and denies him the inheritance -
The Great Gatsby
The story mainly concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby, his quixotic passion and obsession with the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan. Considered Fitzgerald's masterpiece, The Great Gatsby explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval and excess, creating a portrait of the jazz age, art deco and Roaring Twenties that has been described as a cautionary tale regarding the American dream -
Tender Is the Night
The novel reflects a stage in the life of the author himself. When his wife was hospitalized for schizophrenia. The writer then rented the villa called "la Paix", in the suburb of Towson, to write this novel -
Date of death
He died in California
