Name:_________________________________
Date:____________ Period:_________
F. Scott Fitzgerald A&E Biography
The American Dreamer
1. F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald were known as the king and queen of what age?
_____________________________
2. By the age of __________, he was considered washed up.
3. He was known for saying, “Give me a _____________ and I’ll write you a
_______________.”
4. The ______________________ Revolution gave way to the Modern Era.
5. He was born an Irish Catholic on September 24, _____________ in St. Paul,
Minnesota.
6. He was named after a distant relative, Francis Scott Key, who wrote ________
_______________ ___________________ ____________________.
7. In school, he always felt like an outsider because he was a _____________ boy
among rich kids.
8. To impress the kids and win social acceptance, he began _________________.
9. In 1913, he was accepted to ___________________ ____________________.
10. He tried out for the football team but was cut on the ____________ day.
11. Because writing was his strong suit, he joined the ________________ Club, the most
prestigious theatrical group.
12. Since Princeton was an all male school, the boys were required to dress as
women for the plays Fitzgerald wrote. He caused quite a sensation across
campus by dressing in _____________.
13. He spent more time writing plays than studying and was placed on academic
_______________________.
14. He met Genevera at a dance and they fell in love. However, his father told him
that “Rich girls don’t marry poor boys”.
15. He kept all of the love letters she wrote him and she became the focus in many
of his ___________________.
16. In _________, he headed off to bootcamp for WWI.
17. In 1918, he was moved to __________________, Alabama where he imagined himself
a war hero.
18. There, he attended a dance and saw a girl who made “everything inside him
______________.”
19. Her name was ___________ Sayre.
20. She was the daughter of a ______________ ______________ ______________.
21. She wasn’t your typical southern belle, she was _____________.
22. Fitzgerald said he loved her for her “courage, sincerity, and flaming _____________
_____________.”
23. On November ________, 1915 he missed his chance for glory and that was his
greatest ________________.
24. Since he was not sent off to war, he ___________________ to Zelda.
25. He took off to New York City to find a job as a writer. He began writing and
earning $___________ a week.
26. That wasn’t enough for Zelda and she _______________ ___________ __________
______________.
27. He went on a _________ week drinking binge.
28. He moved back home to live with his parents and began working on a project.
29. His piece was accepted for publication and the title was This Side of
_______________.
30. It was released on March 26, 1920 and was completely ______________ __________.
31. It was considered _________________ because of the kissing.
32. At the age of _______he was an instant celebrity.
33. On April 3, 1920 they ________________ .
34. He was the King of the Jazz Age and she was the Queen of the _________________.
35. In February of 1921, Zelda became _______________ and this put a brief stop to
their partying.
36. On October 26, 1921 their _______________ was born.
37. To keep up with their extravagant lifestyle, Fitzgerald wrote for Esquire,
Redbook, and _____________ _____________ ___________.
38. He considered his real work as writing __________________.
39. In March 1922 he wrote his second novel, The Beautiful and the ______________.”
40. They moved to Europe and Fitzgerald worked on what he considered his
greatest masterpiece, The Great ______________.
41. Two of their closest friends were _______________ and ___________ Murphy, an
American couple who ran in circles with the likes of Cole Porter and Picasso.
42. In July of 1924, he settled down and began working on drafts of The Great
____________.
43. While Fitzgerald spend time working on his next masterpiece, Zelda spent more
of her afternoons at the ________________. She met a _______________ _______________ by
the name of Edouard Jozan.
44. Though she had flirted with many men, he was the first she had _____________
during her marriage.
45. Fitzgerald never ______________ her betrayal.
46. In ____________, they went to Paris for the publication of The Great Gatsby.
47. He had high hopes, but the novel failed to sell and did not get great reviews due
to the deaths and ________________.
48. He and Ernest Hemingway became ___________________ buddies.
49. Their rivalry was intense and Hemingway called him out for being a “suck up to
the ______________.”
50. On October 29, 1929 the stock market crashed and the ______________ Age was
finished.
51. Zelda began to lose her mind. At the age of ________ she decided she wanted to be
a ___________________ dancer.
52. As her mental state deteriorated, she was diagnosed with ________________________.
53. His fourth novel, Tender is the Night, was revised ________ times.
54. He hoped that it would restore his __________________ and his _______________
____________.
55. The book didn’t sell because the subject matter was __________________.
56. It’s rumored that he consumed ________ bottles of beer or a __________ of gin a day.
57. He used his pain as inspiration and wrote “The Crack Up” for ________________
Magazine.
58. Fitzgerald signed on with MGM and joined that assembly line when he was
asked to rewrite A Yank at __________.
59. The script went through endless revisions and he was given no screen
________________.
60. He went to Hollywood to curb his ___________.
61. While in Hollywood, he met a woman by the name of Sheila _______________.
62. Sheila knew he was married, but she couldn’t resist his ______________. They began
an affair, but he made it clear he had no intention of _________________ Zelda.
63. In 1937, he was asked to work on Three ______________.
64. It was considered one of the best of ___________, but he hated it because the
producer made changes.
65. That was the ______________ and ____________ time he received a screen credit.
66. In 1938, ____________ did not renew his contract and he had to scramble for work.
67. He was asked to polish the dialogue of Gone ________ the __________, but was
replaced.
68. His relationship with Sheila was volatile. Their __________ were depicted in a
movie based on her _________________.
69. In the fall of ___________, he began working on ___________ ___________ ___________.
70. At the age of 44, and not in good health, he suffered a ___________ ____________.
71. On December __________, 1940 Fitzgerald ___________.
72. Very ____________ people attended his funeral. Zelda was too _______ to make the
trip.
73. For the next ________ years, Zelda remained institutionalized. She died in a
__________ in March of 1948.
74. After Fitzgerald’s death, he was wildly admired and is more ___________ today.
75. In 1950, he was ranked as one of the _________ of his generation.
76. Over _______________ copies of The Great Gatsby are sold each year.
77. The country celebrated his _________ birthday. St. Paul issued a commemorative
__________ and in September they unveiled a life size ____________.
78. Critics say his tremendous _____________ kept him writing.