About F. Scott Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born to a upper-middle class family on September 24, 1896 in saint Paul, Minnesota. He was enrolled in the St. Paul Academy, even then at an early age and he showed a love of the theatre and writing--his first work to appear in print was a detective story The Mystery of the Raymond Mortgage (1909) in the Academy's student paper Now and Then. He then wrote many plays and also some magazines, he loved theatre. He had many works come out one after the other and they were not all the same some were theatres/plays, other maybe articles, and also books or short writings.

Fitzgerald proclaimed: "An author ought to write for the youth of his generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward."
I think that he is just saying he wants to write for the youth and have it still be popular for when the next generation comes. He always wants it to be interesting even after the writing has been around for some time. He wants to provide something that will always keep people on their toes and keep them reading his works after he is long gone.

The 192Os in America was a time of great prosperity, hard labor, war, red scare, flappers, the Charleston, Crime, Gangsters, Prohibition and the Mob, stock market crash, the jazz age, prohibition, race relations, the Ku Klux Klan, urban migration, Sacco and Vanzetti, religious fundamentalism, the Scopes trial, Leopold and Loeb, politics, mass entertainment and consumerism, mass culture, the avant-garde, and the changing role of women, film making and movies, radio, sports: negro league, babe Ruth, Chicago Black Sox, automobile industries. A lot of things happened in the 20s as we learned in American History it was the "roaring" twenties and was known as almost a party time but as always the party has to end and it sure did end in the 1930s when the great depression hit the states and we managed to come out of it and we were still a democracy and not dictatorship.

"Exegit monumentum aere perennius."
I have erected a monument more lasting than bronze.
The saying is in latin