Scott Fitzgerald: famous writer, alcoholism and probable epilepsy.

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Mariana M Wolski

Luciano de Paola

Hélio A G Teive

چکیده

Scott Fitzgerald, a world-renowned American writer, suffered from various health problems, particularly alcohol dependence, and died suddenly at the age of 44. According to descriptions in A Moveable Feast, by Ernest Hemingway, Fitzgerald had episodes resembling complex partial seizures, raising the possibility of temporal lobe epilepsy.

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