F.S. Fitzgeral "The Great Gatsby".

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on 24 September 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota in the Mid-West of America. At the time of his birth America was changing into a country of growing cities and technological changes were happening. He was educated at Princeton University but he was a very poor student and never finished his degree.

The reason he was such a bad student was because of his interest in literature. He read and wrote very much at the University and had little time left for studying.

By the time F. Scott Fitzgerald published The Great Gatsby in 1925, he had already amassed an impressive literary resume. From his first commercial publication of the short story, "Babes in the Woods" at age 23 to "The Sensible Thing" at age 28, Fitzgerald published fourteen short stories, one play, two collections of short stories, and two novels. His first novel, This Side of Paradise, made Fitzgerald a celebrity.

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The second, "The Beautiful and the Damned," was serialized in Metropolitan Magazine. Few American writers published as many well-received short stories in the fiction market as Fitzgerald during this time. After publication of his second short story collection in 1922, he was recognized as the eloquent spokesperson for the Jazz Age. Among his short stories that addressed the aspirations of the generation coming of age in the Roaring Twenties, many continue to appear in popular, literary anthologies today. Among these are "Bernice Bobs her Hair," "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," "The Debutante," "Absolution," and "Winter Dreams." Later works by Fitzgerald such as "Babylon Revisited" also appear frequently in modern anthologies.

Much of his works during this early period is connected by a theme of aspiration. Fitzgerald's personality reflects this theme. In fact, his name carries a legacy of past accomplishments and...