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Francis Scott Fitzgerald short story and novel writer by Randy

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Page 1: S h o rt st o r y a n d n o v el w ri t e r B y R a n d y

Francis Scott Fitzgerald short story and novel writer

by Randy

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The early years• Born in St. Paul Minnesota on

September 24,1896 as an Irish catholic

• Fitzgerald started writing short stories and novels in 1919

• He fell in love with a woman named Zelda Sayre the daughter of a supreme court judge in Alabama and they were engaged in 1919

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The wild years with Zelda

• Fitzgerald had a wild life full of partying and money spending when he was with Zelda

• During these wild times he wrote some of his best books

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Books he wrote in the wild years

• Some of the books he wrote in his wild years are The Great Gatsby and The Beautiful and the damned

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• It has been said it might have been his big party lifestyle that slowed him down or his big money spender wife Zelda

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The falling yearsFitzgerald

had suffered two heart attacks in 1940 the second one killed him in Hollywood California on Dec. 21,1940

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THE END Sites

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._Scott_Fitzgerald