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Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American writer of novels, and short stories that epitomized the mood and manners of the 1920's, the Jazz Age, as it was called. Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896, in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and attended Princeton University, where he mostly ignored formal study, instead receiving his education from writers and critics, such as Edmund Wilson, who remained his lifelong friend. In 1917 he quit Princeton to take an army commission, and …

…they married as well. Overall, I think that The Great Gatsby is a very good book. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote a very meaningful novel. It reflected many of the faults of man during the 1920's. It was a very interesting story to read, as a matter of fact, I think that Spielberg should make this book into a movie. So on a scale of one to ten, I would probably give this book an eight.