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Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on September 24, 1896. He started writing at an early age. He attended Princeton University. He dropped out to join the army and to start writing more. At 21 he submitted his first novel, “The Romantic Egoist”, which was rejected. He decided to rewrite it and resubmitted it only to get it rejected a second time. While in the army he met Zelda Sayre. She was not impressed with his income and would not marry him. His novel finally got accepted and they married a week after the publication. Fitzgerald wrote his second novel “The Beautiful and the Damned” a year after they were married. Three years later, they had a child, Scottie, and he wrote “The Great Gatsby”. Near the end of his life Fitzgerald won a contract in 1937 to write for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in Hollywood . He suffered a heart attack and died in 1940 at the age of 44. Fitzgerald's work did not earn the credibility and recognition it holds today until years after his death. The US emerged from the Great War as a rich and power