F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota. At the age of 18 Fitzgerald fell in love with the 16-year-old Ginevra King. He used her to create the character of Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby. After he had dropped out of school he joined the U.S. Army and went to fight in WWI but he never seen any action. I think that he might have used this to create the story The Romantic Egoist, but I'm not sure. He met the women of his dreams but she said he didn't have enough money for her but when he published This Side of Paradise she married him. They had a kid and moved to Europe. He wrote the book The Great Gatsby. This was his greatest book.

"An author ought to write for the youth of his generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward."
Well I don't really know what he means by this but I think he is being very literal in the fist part "Write for the youth", and they are "the critics of the next" meaning that they are going to be the ones who read and judge your work. I don't know what he means be the last part.

Some important events in the 1920s where:
-The great depression
-Prohibiton
-Bootlegging
-KKK founded
-Fist broadcasting station and movies
-Babe Ruth hits 60 homeruns

Phrase: "I have erected a monument more lasting than bronze."