The Great Gatsby Research

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald--
He was named after Francis Scott Key (author of the national anthem), to whom he was related to distantly. in 1898 the family moved to New York, where Edward, Fitzgerald's father, got a job as a salesman, but in 1908 Edward lost the job and the family was back in St. Paul (their home town). In 1909 his first piece of work , The Mystery of the Raymond Mortgage. appeared in the school newspaper. His first novel, The Romantic Egoist, was rejected, but after 3 revisions, it was published as This Side of Paradise, in 1920. In that same year, Fitzgerald got his own piece of paradise when he married Zelda Sayre. In 1922 they had their first daughter. In 1930 Zelda had a nervous breakdown, but Fitzgerald continued to use his wife's mental breakdowns and their overall dysfunctional relationship in his writings including "The Last of the Belles" (1929), "Babylon Revisited" (1930), "Emotional Bankruptcy" (1931), "Crazy Sunday" (1932), and "Trouble" (1937). Zelda struggled with her breakdowns for a long time. In 1940 she moved to Montgomery to live with her mom. During the same year, Fitzgerald had a heart attack and a month later died from another, on December 21, 1940.
Fitzgerald proclaimed: "An author ought to write for the youth of his generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward." --
An author needs to be able to get the attention of all ages. If somebody wants to write for little kids thats fine, but it needs to get the parent's attention since he/she will be the one reading it.
192os in America--
The laws of immigration were changed so the population of foreigners was always changing. The twenties was a productive decade up untill 1929 when the stock market crashed.... causing depression.
Translate: "Exegit monumentum aere perennius."--
"I have erected a monument more lasting than bronze."