Francis Scott Fitzgerald
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Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald is known as one of the most important
American writers of his time. He wrote about the troubling time period in which
he lived known as the Jazz Age. During this era people were either rich or
dreamt of great wealth. Fitzgerald fell into the trap of wanting to be wea ....
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.... St. Paul wed February 13, 1890 in Washington, D.C. Fitzgerald'
s maternal grandfather was a very successful wholesale merchant. His
grandfather's early death and his father's inability to keep a job, forced the
family to be extremely dependent on the wealth of his grandfather's estate.
Fitzgerald attended the St. Paul Academy as a child. In 1911 he entered the
Newman School in Hackensack, NJ. Growing up with a father who was out of work
and who relied on his wife's inheritance gave Fitzge ....
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