F Scott Fitzgerald's Accomplishments

Being one of the most iconic and influential writers is no easy feat. Coining the term “The Jazz Age” was also an amazing accomplishment. That is just what F. Scott Fitzgerald did in the early 20th century. He wrote many great pieces including The Great Gatsby, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. He was a great writer and has been acknowledged for many great things, yet he was not highly regarded at the time for being an award winning author. F. Scott Fitzgerald was an author that was underestimated, yet his astounding works shone through and were discovered to be great.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, or by his full name, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, was born on September 24th, 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Fitzgerald received his name from his second
At the age of fifteen he moved to a well renowned catholic school in New Jersey called the Newman School. At this school he met a teacher by the name of Father Sigourney Fey, who told him that he would have a bright future in writing if he pursued his passion. When he graduated from the Newman School, he attended Princeton University, also located in New Jersey, to continue his pursue in writing. At Princeton, he wrote various articles for the school paper, The Princeton Tiger. He also wrote scripts for musicals, his most famous one being the Triangle Club musical (Biography.com 1-2). Fitzgerald spent so much time on his writing that he did not keep up with his regular school work, resulting in him dropping out of Princeton University. At this point, he did not really have many other opportunities so he joined the U.S. Army in 1917. At this point, it was World War I,and Fitzgerald thought he would surely die in the war and not be able to continue pursuing his writing career. When he was stationed at Camp Sheridan in Montgomery, Alabama, he wrote The Romantic Egotist, a novel that Charles and Sons rejected but still congratulated him for its
She was eighteen when he married her.. When the war ended in 1918, Fitzgerald was not required to return to war because World War I had ended before he could be deployed. After this he moved to New York with his wife and wanted to make a living in advertising. After a few months of working for an advertising company he became tired of it and quit his job, later moving back to his hometown. In Saint Paul, he planned to rewrite and finish his novel. The new novel was named This Side of Paradise, and focused mainly on love and greed. When he published it in 1920, it became an instant success making him one of the most prominent young writers of the time, at the age of only twenty four. In 1921, he had his first child, which was his daughter, named Frances Scott