Facts about F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The term 'Jazz Age' was popularized largely through F. Scott Fitzgerald's writings, cementing his role as the defining voice of 1920s American culture.
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His debut novel This Side of Paradise, published in 1920, made F. Scott Fitzgerald an overnight celebrity at just 23 years old.
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Alcoholism plagued F. Scott Fitzgerald throughout his life and contributed to his declining health and early death at age 44 in 1940.
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Princeton University dropout F. Scott Fitzgerald enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1917, fearing he would die before finishing his first novel.
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Zelda Sayre, F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife, was hospitalized for schizophrenia in 1932 and spent the remaining 17 years of her life in psychiatric institutions.
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In 1925, The Great Gatsby sold only 20,000 copies during F. Scott Fitzgerald's lifetime, despite becoming an American literary classic.