Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on September 24, 1896, During 1911-1913 he attended the Newman School, a Catholic prep school in New Jersey, and moved on to become a member of the Princeton Class of 1917. Fitzgerald went to New York City to work on his novel. After revision it was rejected a second time and not published. In july of 1919 he returned to St. Paul to rewrite his novel as This side …showed first 75 words of 987 total…

…showed last 75 words of 987 total…the Last Tycoon, in 1939 and had written a working draft. When he died of a heart attack on December 21, 1940. Zelda Fitzgerald perished at a fire in Highland Hospital in 1948. F. Scott Fitzgerald died believing himself a failure. he seemed destined for literary failure. By 1960 he had achieved a secure place among America's enduring writers. The Great Gatsby, a work that seriously examines the theme of aspiration in an American setting, defines the classic American novel.