There are many authors in the literary world who have impacted the lives of humans every day through their phenomenal works. These authors have tried their best to provide good entertainment to the audience for many years. Some authors are very well known throughout the world because of their established literary merit and sources of literary criticism. However, there is one particular author who is considered a classic American author, and that is F. Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald is well known for his most admired novel, The Great Gatsby. The Great Gatsby was marked and inspired after F. Scott and his wife Zelda Fitzgerald moved to Great Neck on Long Island in the early 1920s. Scott Fitzgerald or also known as Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul , Minnesota, September 24, 1896. He was a very healthy baby after the death of his parents' two previous children during infancy, due to disastrous epidemics. Fitzgerald is named after the author of “The Star Spangled Banner,” Francis Scott Key. Scott Key was an ancestor on his father's side of the family of whom they were very proud. F. Scott Fitzgerald was the child of two Catholics, Edward and Mary McQuillan Fitzgerald. Mary was the daughter of an Irish immigrant who grew up in St. Paul. She was not very attractive physically, but she managed to exert a strong influence on the people around her, including her son. When Francis Scott was born, his father Edward Fitzgerald was running a small business. After his company failed, he found work as a businessman in New York, where the family had to move. The frequent moves forced Francis Scott to invent a more stable life for himself with great success and success (Greenfeld 6). Later...... middle of paper ...... in Great Neck, Long Island was a major influence on F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Works CitedBloom, Harold, ed. Modern critical interpretations: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. New York: Chelsea House, 1986. “A Brief Life of Fitzgerald” print. Biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli. Scribners Pocket Fiction, 2009. Web. April 23, 2014. .Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York: Scribner Paperback Fiction, 1995. Print. Greenfeld, Howard. F. Scott Fitzgerald. New York: Crown, nd Print. Gross, Dalton and Mary Jean Gross. Understanding The Great Gatsby: A Student Casebook on Historical Issues, Sources, and Documents. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1998. Print. Tredell, Nicholas. F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby. New York: Columbia UP, 1999. Print.