Was born on September 24, 1896 and died December 21, 1940. Was an american author and short stories whose works are the writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. He has wrote four novels four novels, This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender Is the Night and his most famous, the celebrated classic, The Great Gatsby.

Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, to an Irish upper middle class Roman Catholic family, Fitzgerald was named after his famous second cousin. He was also named after his deceased sister Louise Scott,[2] one of two sisters who died shortly before his birth.

But the Fitzgeralds returned to America to escape the distractions of France. After a short, unsuccessful stint of screen writing in Hollywood, Fitzgerald rented “Ellerslie,” a mansion near Wilmington, Delaware, in the spring of 1927. The family remained at “Ellerslie” for two years interrupted by a visit to Paris in the summer of 1928, but Fitzgerald was still unable to make significant progress on his novel.