Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald/1920

a year after they were married. Three years later, they had a child, Scottie, and he wrote “The Great Gatsby”.

Near the end of his life Fitzgerald won a contract in 1937 to write for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in Hollywood . He suffered a heart attack and died in 1940 at the age of 44. Fitzgerald's work did not earn the credibility and recognition it holds today until years after his death.

The US emerged from the Great War as a rich and

Everyone had a radio in the 20’s. By the late 20’s there were 100’s of broadcasting stations and nearly 10 million privately owned radio sets. Also booming in the 20’s were the building and construction and automobile industries, consumer goods, cars, refrigerators, cookers, and telephones. The GNP rose from $74 billion to more than $104 billion. Wages were up, workers had more money to spend. Americans invested in the stock market as stock prices soared up. In the 1920’s there were 106,521,537 people in the US. The life expectancy of males was 53 and for women 54. The average annual income was $1236. 2,132,000 people were unemployed. 5.2% was unemployment.

powerful nation. American life changed dramatically in the 1920’s, which saw the first trans-Atlantic phone call, the first movie with sound, first enclosed car, and the discovery of Penicilin. Prohibition was a part of the 20’s. It made the consumption and even the possession of alcohol illegal. It was intended to lower crime and improve the general status of life. Women won the right

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