Biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896, to a father and mother whose names are not mentioned. Like the main character of his novel The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald had an very romantic imagination, He attended both St. Paul Academy (1908-10) and Newman School (1911-13), where he was unpopular, but at Princeton he came close to realizing his dream of success. He became a prominent figure in the university and …showed first 75 words of 501 total…

…showed last 75 words of 501 total…come back far enough to become a scriptwriter in Hollywood, and there he met and fell in love with Sheilah Graham, a famous Hollywood gossip columnist. For the rest of his life--except for occasional drunken spells when he became violent--Fitzgerald lived with her. (Occasionally he went east to visit Zelda or his daughter Scottie, who entered Vassar College in 1938.) Fitzgerald suffered a fatal heart attack. He was44 years old when he died on December 21 in 1940.