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The Great Gatsby F.Scott.Fitzgerald Context Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on September 24 1896 and named after his ancestor Francis Scott Key the author of The Star-Spangled Banner. Fitzgerald was raised in St. Paul Minnesota. Though an intelligent child he did poorly in school and was sent to a New Jersey boarding school in 1911. Despite being a mediocre student there he managed to enroll at Princeton in 1913. Academic troubles and apathy plagued him throughout his time at college and he never graduated instead enlisting in the army in 1917 as World War I neared its end. Fitzgerald be