American writer born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States, considered one of the most important writers of the so-called lost generation of American literature. Descended from an Irish Catholic family, he entered Princeton University, but did not graduate to join the Army (1917) as a volunteer during World War I. During military training in a field in Alabama, he met Zelda Sayre, whom he would marry. Demobilized from his military duties, he tried to pursue a career in advertising until he embarked on a literary career with This Side of Paradise (1920), a novel that consecrated him in popularity.
With great prestige, he released his second novel, The Beautiful and Damned (1922), incarnating the spokesman for young intellectuals angry with society. He moved to France (1924), where he completed the third and most celebrated of his novels, The Great Gatsby (1925), certainly one of the most representative works of the American novel. Today it is considered his masterpiece, but not a great sales success at the time. He spent a long period just writing for magazines, while his wife went into a debilitating process. mental until she had to be hospitalized for the first time in a hospice (1930), generating a tragic component in the life of the writer.
Dominated by alcoholism, he also published Tender is the Night (1934 ), which he considered his best work, but another sales failure. He returned to the U.S.A. and moved to Hollywood (1937), where he worked as a screenwriter. He still wrote his last novel, The Last Tycoon (1939), published posthumously (1941) and weakened from alcohol, he died in Hollywood, California, at just 44 years of age and after two attempts at suicide. Emotionally shaken in recent years, Zelda was still hospitalized several times for mental treatment and died in a madhouse fire (1948).
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