F. Scott Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on 24 September, 1896, in St. Paul, Minnesota. In 1924, he moved to the French Riviera, where he wrote The Great Gatsby, now widely regarded as the definitive American novel. Fitzgerald published Tender is the Night in 1934, after a long absence from the literary landscape. In October 1939, he began writing his Hollywood novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon. It was half-completed when he suffered a fatal heart attack on 21 December, 1940, at the age of forty-four.