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Fitzgerald, F. Scott

  1. A twentieth-century American author known for his short stories and for his novels, including The Great Gatsby and This Side of Paradise. He led a tempestuous life with his wife, Zelda, and was one of several talented Americans, including Ernest Hemingway, who lived in Paris in the 1920s.



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Getty Images circa 1930: US novelist Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald F. Scott Fitzgerald may not have coined the word stinko, but he may well have been the first English-speaking soul to write it down—according to the Oxford English Dictionary.

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