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1896
He was born in Saint Paul , Minesota -
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1917
He attended Princeton University but he dropped out to join the United States Army during World War I. -
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1920
He achieved temporary popular success and fortune -
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1920
He published the commercially successful "This Side of Paradise". -
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1922
In this year he wrote his second novel " The Beautiful and Damned " wich propelled him further into the cultural elite. -
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1925
His third novel, "The Great Gatsby " was written in this year, with this novel he recived generally favorable reviews but was a commercial failure, selling fewer than 23,000 copies in its first year. -
1934
Nine years after the publication of The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald completed his fourth novel Tender Is the Night -
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1940
He died in Los Angeles, California, U.S. -
1941
His friend Edmund Wilson edited and published an unfinished fifth novel, The Last Tycoon , after Fitzgerald's death.