Some about autor of this literary work.

Fransis Scott Fitzgeralld is an american writуer who created great novels and stories, describing so-called american "jazz era" of the 1920s.
Born on September 24, 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota, in a wealthy Irish Catholic family. His name, he was in honor of his great-great-grandfather, the author of the text of the national anthem of the USA by Francis Scott Key.
Before the final exams, Fitzgerald went as a volunteer in the army, but in the fighting, he never was.
In 1919, Fitzgerald was demobilized, worked for a while advertising agent in New York. Even during he was in the army, he met Zelda Sayre, comes from a wealthy and respectable family and is considered the main and the most beautiful bride enviable state. That it is associated with all subsequent biography and all creativity Fitzgerald.
Becoming one of the main characters of gossip, Scott and Zelda were living, they say, for show: they enjoyed the fun rich life, which consisted of parties, receptions and trips to European resorts. They constantly "throwing" any eccentricities that made them talk about all the American supreme light: then skating around Manhattan rooftop taxi, bathing in the fountain, the appearance in the nude on the play. For all that their life was also from the constant scandals (often motivated by jealousy) and the inordinate use of alcohol, as he and she.
All this time, Scott also managed to quite a lot of writing for magazines, which brought a very significant income (he was one of the highest paid authors of the then "glossy" magazines).
In 1924, Fitzgerald went to Europe, first to Italy and then to France. While in Paris, he met there with Ernest Hemingway. It was in Paris Fitzgerald finishes and publishes the novel "The Great Gatsby" - a novel that many critics, and indeed Fitzgerald, considered a masterpiece of American literature of the period, the symbol of the "era of jazz." In 1926 he published a collection of short stories "All these sad young people." 

However, the following years of his life Fitzgerald are very heavy. For a living, he wrote for The Saturday Evening Post. His wife Zelda is going through several bouts of obfuscation, since 1925, and gradually goes mad. Treat it fails. Fitzgerald is going through a painful crisis and begins to drink even more.

In October 1939, Fitzgerald began to write the novel about the life of Hollywood - "The Last Tycoon", which was left unfinished. During the three years of living in Hollywood, he also wrote a series of stories and articles, mostly autobiographical, published after his death in the book "Crash." 

Fitzgerald died of a heart attack December 21, 1940 in Hollywood, California, in the home of Sheila Graham.