精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上Book Report of TheGreatGatsby1. About the author.F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St Paul, Minnesota of mixed Southern and Irish descent. He was given three names after the writer ofThe Star Spangled Banner, to whom he was distantly related. His father, Edward Fitzgerald, was a salesman, a Southern gentleman, whose furniture business had failed. His greater impact to him was “even ifyour business has failed，we have to maintainthe habit of generousstyle”. Mary McQuilla
