![]() ![]() Therefore I cannot think of any events that may have influenced the book that Fitzgerald wrote. Eventually he died in 1940 at the age of 44 on his second heart attack.Īt the time he wrote ‘The Great Gatsby’, somewhere around 1925, there were not a lot of thing happening in the world. He spent all his life dealing with financial problems and writing short stories to make some money. In 1926 his book ‘The Great Gatsby’, the book that most people see as his masterpiece, was published. This took some time, during which he was always in financial problems. When he was fired from the army, he tried to get his first book published. ![]() In 1917 he went into the army, where he started writing. In 1913 he went to Princeton, where he became friends with people who would later become good writers, like Edmund Wilson. Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in Minnesota. ![]()
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