This Side Of Paradise By Francis Key Scott Fitzgerald

Born in 1896 on September 24. He married the woman he loved, Zelda, but later, as he descended into drinking Zelda suffered and mental breakdown. He was named after Francis Key Scott, who happened to have written the Star Spangled Banner. After graduating from the Newman School in 1913 he decided to stay in New Jersey and continue his artistic development at Princeton.
This Side of Paradise, which is a largely autobiographical story about greed and love. It was centered on Amory Blaine, who was an ambitious Midwesterner who fell in love with two girls from high-class families. Ultimately he gets rejected by both. The novel was published in 1920. Almost overnight, Fitzgerald, at 24 became one of the country’s most promising new young writers.

He embraced his new star status, and extravagant lifestyle which earned him a bad reputation as a playboy and further hindered his reputation as a serious literary writer. Some of his most famous short stories include, “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz,” “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” “The Camel’s Back” and “The Last of the Belles.”
In 1922, he published his second novel, “The Beautiful and Damned.” A story of the troubled marriage of Anthony and Gloria Patch. It helped to cement his status as one of the great chroniclers and satirists of the culture of wealth, extravagance and ambition that emerged during the affluent 1920s.
After completing The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald’s life began to unravel. Always a heavy drinker, he progressed steadily into alcoholism and suffered prolonged bouts of writer’s block. After many years lost to alcohol and depression, in 1937 Fitzgerald attempted to revive his career as a screenwriter and freelance story writer in Hollywood, and he achieved modest financial, if not critical, success for his efforts. He had just begun work on another novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon, and had completed over half the manuscript when he died of a heart attack on December 21 of 1940 at the age of 44 in Hollywood.