F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), US novelist. He published his first novel in 1920 the same year that he married Zelda Sayre. In 1924 they emigrated to France, where Fitzgerald wrote his highly acclaimed novel of US life in the ‘roaring twenties’, The Great Gatsby (1925). Zelda became mentally ill in the 1930’s and Fitzgerald became an alcoholic. His next major novel, Tender is the Night did not appear until 1934. In 1937 he moved to Hollywood to write film scripts.
