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Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul Minnesota to Edward and Molly Fitzgerald.
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He was apart of the Princeton class of 1917.
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He was put on academic probation, so he joined the army in 1917.
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He was assigned to Camp Sheridan near Montgomery, Alabama, where he meet Zelda.
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He was discharged from the army in 1919.
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He quit his job in 1919 to rewrite his book.
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He rewrote his novel and titled it “This Side of Paradise”, which was accepted in September of that year.
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He write his first book titled “The Romantic Egotist in 1919.
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“This Side of Paradise” was published in 1920.
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Fitzgerald and Zelda got married in 1920 after his book was published.
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His wife, Zelda, becomes pregnant with the couples first and only child.
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The family went to France in the spring of 1924, where “The Great Gatsby” was written.
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He finished his fourth book, titled “Tender is the Night” in 1934.
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He started writing his final novel titled “The Love of the Last Tycoon” in 1939, which was never completed.
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Fitzgerald died from a heart attack in 1940 in Hollywood, California at the age of 44.
