The Roaring Twenties provided the United States with incredible wealth in all aspects of society. During this period, American literature was enriched with the stories and novels of Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald grew up with the ambition of becoming a famous and successful man. He failed to achieve success as a football player at Princeton during his freshman year and was one armistice away from achieving hero status in World War I. His success came through an art he learned as a child, writing. He excelled at writing and drew inspiration for his work from his own life. During the latter part of his career, Fitzgerald wrote a short story titled "Babylon Revisited", in which Charles Wales reflects on his past success but wishes to make amends with the past and rekindle his relationship with his daughter. Fitzgerald used his own experiences in his stories and shaped them almost according to his biography. The experiences that Fitzgerald used in his life to write “Babylon Revisited” were his wife Zelda's difficult life, his personal struggles and his relationship with his daughter. The condition of Fitzgerald's wife mirrors the death of Charlie's wife in the story. During the story, Charlie's wife died. Scott Donaldson describes Zelda as “a victim of the reckless and expensive life they led during the boom years” (8). Similar to Charlie, Fitzgerald lived a reckless lifestyle alongside his wife Zelda. Fitzgerald and Zelda drank and partied so much during the 1920s that they even defied death by standing and riding in a cab around New York City. Although both couples have led reckless lives, Fitzgerald and Charlie love their wives dearly. Fitzgerald writes in “Babylon Revisited,” “He… middle of paper… Similar to Charlie, Fitzgerald regrets his past mistakes, including the plight of his wife. Charlie's daughter being taken away from him is another autobiographical aspect that Fitzgerald incorporates. The struggles and successes Fitzgerald encountered throughout his life, his short stories, his novels, and his legend helped define him as one of the greatest autobiographical writers of his time, still recognized in the world of literature nearly ninety years later. Works Cited Donaldson, Scott. “American novelists. F. Scott Fitzgerald. Dictionary of Literary Biography 9 (1981); 3-18. Web.Fitzgerald, Francis Scott Key. “Babylon revisited.” LearningWeb by Jeff Lindemann. Houston Community College, nd Web. July 29, 2011. Prigozy, Ruth. “American short story writers. F. Scott Fitzgerald. Dictionary of Literary Biography 86 (1989); 22-123. Net.