Francis Scott
Fitzgerald
Kyle Lyons, Lauren Osborne, David Kunitsa, Josh Peyton,
Max Davis, and Timmy Draime
What was Scott
Fitzgerald race?
He was an American, and also caucasian, but he came
from an Irish family.
Were was F. Scott Fitzgerald
Borne?
• Borne 1896, in
Saint Paul
Minnesota.
• Fitzgerald was
borne to an upper
middle class IrishCatholic family.
Wikipedia. August 29, 2012. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._Scott_Fitzgerald>.
Where did Scott
Fitzgerald live?
• F. Scott Fitzgerald was born September the
24th, 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He was
"born to an upper class Irish catholic family."
He grew up in Buffalo and Syracuse, New
York. He lived his adult life in Paris and the
later half in Hollywood. (Wikipedia, par.2)
Did Scott have a wife?
• Yes, her name was Zelda Sayre.
• She was an American novelist. And wrote
magazine articles and short stories.
• They did not have a happy marriage, scott
using her for materials in his novels. They
always fought him being an alcoholic and her
being insane.
• She was diagnosed with schizophrenia. And
died in the hospital she was at from a fire.
THIS IS ZELDA FITZGERALD
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelda_Fitzg
DID F. SCOTT
FITZGERALD HAVE
KIDS?
HE HAD A DAUGHTER. HER
NAME WAS FRANCES
SCOTT FITZGERALD. SHE
WAS A WRITER AND
JOURNALIST.
How many novels did
F. Scott Fitzgerald
write?
• He wrote 4 novels and started a 5th novel but
he never finished it before he died. The 5th
unfinished novel was called the love of the lost
tycoon.
WHAT DID F. SCOTT
F. SCOTT
WAS A FAMOUSDO?
FITZGERALD
AUTHOR. HE WAS KNOWN
FOR WRITING THE GREAT
GATSBY. OTHER STORIES
HE WROTE WERE "THIS SIDE
OF PARADISE" AND "THE
BEAUTIFUL AND THE
DAMMED"
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h2000.html
What was F. Scott
Fitzgerald religion.
• He was Roman Catholic. He went to a
Catholic high school.
Who is Francis Scott Fitzgerald?
Was an American
author of novels and
short stories, whose
works are the
paradigm writings of
the Jazz Age, a term
he coined himself.
Wikipedia. August 29, 2012. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._Scott_Fitzgerald>.
When did F. Scott Fitzgerald die?
• Fitzgerald Died
December 21,
1940
• Died while
eating a
chocolate bar
and reading
the news
paper.
• Death caused
by a massive
heart attack
due to alcohol
abuse.
Wiki Answers. August 29, 2012. <http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_did_F_Scott_Fitzgerald_die>.
Who were F. Scott's
parents?
• "His parents were Mollie
(McQuillan) and Edward
Fitzgerald who were both
practicing Catholics and
sent Scott to two catholic
schools.
• (Wikipedia.org/wiki/F._Sc
ott_Fitzgerald, par.2)
What book made him
famous?
• The Great Gatsby, a novel
that takes place in a
prosperous time known as
the Roaring Twenties.
• (Wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gre
at_Gatsby, par.1)
Bibliography
Wikipedia.17 August 2012
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._Scott_Fitzgerald
Wikipedia. 30 August 2012.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelda_Fitzgerald