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the man who wrote the great gatsby and lived it, minus the happy ending.
means f. scott fitzgerald, novelist of the jazz age, chronicler of american wealth's hollow center and his own spectacular unraveling.
from born 1896 in st. paul, minnesota, named for a distant cousin who wrote the star-spangled banner; he wanted to be a football hero, ended up naming an entire era instead.
coined termpopularized the phrase jazz age itself
gatsby floppedsold poorly, died thinking he'd failed
hollywood exilewrote screenplays broke and drinking in la
zelda's shadowwife's writing and breakdown fed his fiction