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Sunday, March 21, 2010

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

- Named after Francis Scott Key who wrote the "Star Spangled Banner"
- Born on September 24, 1896
-St. Paul Minnesota
-Parents were Edward Fitzgerald and Mary "Mollie" McQuillan
-One sister named Annabel(1901)
-First work printed was The Mystery of Raymond Mortgage(1909)
- St. Paul's Academy Student Paper
- Attended Princeton University in 1913
- Theater
-Left Princeton and joined the army in 1917
-April 3, 1920 in New York City- Married Zelda Sayre
- One daughter- Frances Scott- 1922
-Other notable works include All the Sad Young Men(1926), Tales of the Jazz Age(1922), The Beautiful and the Damned(1922)
-Divorced
-Died December 21, 1940 in Hollywood California
- Second heart attack

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