I was rather literary in college — one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the 'Yale News.' — and now I was going to brin… - F. Scott Fitzgerald

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I was rather literary in college — one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the 'Yale News.' — and now I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of all specialists, the 'well-rounded man.' This isn’t just an epigram — life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.

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Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (24 September 1896 – 21 December 1940) was an Irish-American novelist and short story writer.

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Native Name: Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
Alternative Names: Francis Scott Fitzgerald Scott Fitzgerald

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