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<正>"The Great Gatsby"is a brilliant short novel written by Fitzgerald. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul,MInnesota on September24,1896. He was the only son of an upper middle class Catholic family. While he was at Princeton university,the young Fitzgerald developed his talent in writing. When the First World War broke out,he enlisted in the army,and in a training camp in Alabama,he met and fell in love with Zelda sayre,the southern belle who became his wife and who was the model for most of the beautiful and gay heroines of his fiction. His life with her was a mixture of great happiness and great misery and pain. In 1925,Fitzgerald published his most famous novel "The Great Gatsby". Before long,his wife became mentally ill. Fitzgerald declined as a writer. He worked regularly as a script-writer in Hollywood from 1937 to 1939,when he succumbed to alcoholism. He died of heart attack in 1940. His wife,Zelda,was sent to a sanitarium and died in a fire started by herself in the sanitarium。