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Fitzgerald was born on September 24 1896 in saint Paul, Minnesota -
He was a member of the Princeton class of 1917. He rejected his class work.
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Due to his failures in high school he was put on academic probation. Which lead him into the American Army. -
Shortly after joining the army he wrote his first novel The Romantic Euitist
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Was assigned a camp share in Montgomery, Alabama. Where he met Zelda Sayre, the youngest daughter of a Alabama Supreme Court judge.
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Discharged from the army in 1919.
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Went to New York to marry Zelda
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Zelda broke up with Fitzgerald because she can’t live off of his small salary. -
He quit his job and moved back to Saint Paul to re write his first novel. Which is called This Side of Paradise and was accepted by Editor Mac Liperkins. -
At the end of 1919 Fitzgerald officially commits to the Mass circulation post.
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Soon after This Side of Paradise was published Zelda and Fitzgerald got married in New York.
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The Fitzgerald’s moved back to New York and he wrote his second novel called a the Beautiful And Damned.
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Zelda Fitzgerald got pregnant a year after they got married.
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Francis Fitzgerald is Zelda and F Scott Fitzgerald’s only child. He was born in 1921. -
Fitzgerald died in 1940 to a hearth attack.