After the Great War, new writers emerged and so did many cultural aspects of America, such as music, poetry, and art. Americans were looking for a place where they could express themselves. New York was becoming the cultural center of the new American life. American writers were slowly discovered and this era is called Modernism. F. Scott Fitzgerald was one of those writers who quickly began to express himself through literature during the era of Modernism.F. Scott Fitzgerald is best known for his writings which are mostly autobiographical. F. Scott Fitzgerald is famous, not only for his writings, but also for his life. F. Scott Fitzgerald was a master of novels, short stories, and essay writer. F. Scott Fitzgerald is tremendously known throughout the world as a writer of the Jazz Age of the 1920s and the Great Depression of the 1930s. F. Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896. He was the only child of an aristocratic father and a working-class mother. Fitzgerald enrolled at St. Paul Academy when he was a young boy. The first story F. Scott Fitzgerald ever wrote was called The Raymond Mortgage Mystery. It was a crime novel published in his school newspaper. After going to St. Paul Academy, he studied at a school called Newman School in New Jersey. In the fall of 1913, F. Scott Fitzgerald entered Princeton to pursue a major in literature. “While working on the collage, he wrote musicals for the Princeton Triangle Club and also contributed pieces to the Princeton Tiger and Nassau Literary Magazine.” (St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, 1) Fitzgerald was enormously devoted to his literary life. After a few years of collage, he was starting to be lax when it came to his studies....... middle of paper ......rald continued to write essays, short stories for magazines, and spent time in Hollywood as a contract writer. After everything he had been through, he was finally starting to improve his life. He no longer drank and even had an affair with film journalist Sheilah Graham. “He was also finishing his last story entitled The Last Tycoon, but on December 21, 1940, Fitzgerald died of a heart attack while in Graham's apartment.” (Reference Library of the Roaring Twenties. Ed. Kelly King Howes. Vol. 2: Biographies, 4) Since the death of F. Scott Fitzgerald many of us have been familiar with numerous of his stories. At least a dozen of his stories are largely important when it comes to American literature. He will always be known as one of America's greatest writers. The stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald are a colossal and magnificent part of literature that will never be forgotten.