F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. SCOTT fitzgerald

Sofía Caballero Martín

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Biography

Women of his life

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Family

France

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Zelda's death

Studies

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Writer

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Biography

Who was he?

His works

Where he was born?

family

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Mary McQuillan

Edward Fitzgerald

Descedant of a wealthy famiiy of Irish origin

South ruined man

studies

american army

university studies

women of his life

Ginevra King

Zelda Sayre

In France, he finished writing what he considered his masterpiece, The Great Gatsby, the successful and lately decadent story of an alcohol dealer, who invented an aristocratic identity and since then he has lived as a ghost in an mansion

france

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zelda death

Zelda was hospitalized for 18 years in a sanitorium because of mental problems as she had been diagnosed with schizophrenia. Unfortunately, Zelda died during a fire in the clinic where she had been treated

novels

The Beauty and Damned

Tender Is The Night

The Last Tycoon

The second novel written by Fitzgerald in 1922

The novel was never completed because Fitzgrerald died before

Published between in 1934, in four installments

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Fitzgerald's death

Death

His lifeless body was found drunk and exhausted the 21st of December in 1940 in Hollywood, California, in frony of his typewriter. His body was transferred by rail to be buried at Saint's Mary next to his paternal family but the opposition of the Catholic hierarchy, due to Fitzgerald's non-practicing condition, forced him tinto a long exile in the Cemetery Rockville Civil.

Grave

An exquisite writer and lover of luxury, Scott Fitzgerald lies in a small cemetery surrounded by shopping centres where the incessant noise of a highway intersection has replaced the "jazz" that set his novel

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SOFIA CBALLERO MARTIN

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University studies

He enrolled at Princeton University but he did not graduate as he dropped out his university studies to enlist in the American army, which was involved in the Great European War.

Fitzgerald and King

The 18 year-old Fitzgerald return home to his natal city during Christmas break where he met and fell in love with 16 year-old Ginevra who was an American socialite and as she was one of Chicago's Big Four debutantes, she inspired many characters in the novels and stories of the writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. The couple began a romantic relationship spanning several years.

The Great Gatsby

American Army

Once in the American Army, he performed his first novel's draft called "This Side of Paradise", whose publication in 1920 made Fitzgerald a wealthy man apart from all the popularity he gained which allowed him to continue publishing his works in prestigious magazines such as The Evening Post, and became one of the most repreentative images of the American Dream. Fitzgerald was the most tipycal author from the known as Lost Generation.

Fitzgerald and Sayre

During a meeting at a country club, he met Zelda and fell in live with her. They married in 1920 and then he moved to France with her, who was essential to him since she was his inspiration and company, even when he sank into alcohol and she into dementia.Despite everything, they continued their reationship, in spite of Zelda's numerous infidelities. In 1921, their only child, Frances Scott Fitzgerald, lovely known as Scottie, was born.