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Published: 01.12.1996.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald', 1.
  • Essays 'Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald', 2.
  • Essays 'Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald', 3.
  • Essays 'Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald', 4.
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Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896, St. Paul, Minn U.S - December 21, 1940 Hollywood, Calif) was a short story writer. Fitzgerald is regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century, with his novels famous for its depiction of the Jazz Age (1920s). He finished four novels (including "The Great Gatsby", "The Beautiful and the Damned"), left the fifth unfinished and wrote a dozen more that features the theme of youth, despair and age.
Fitzgerald was the only son of an unsuccessful, upper-class father and an energetic, provincial mother.…

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