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September 24, 1896
He was born -
1917
He attended Princeton University but he dropped out to join the United States Army during World War I. -
1920
Zelda agreed to marry him after he published the commercially successful This Side of Paradise -
1922
John V. A. Weaver predicted that, as Fitzgerald matured as a writer, he would become regarded as one of the greatest authors of American literature. -
1934
Fitzgerald completed his final novel, Tender Is the Night -
1934
Fitzgerald completed his fourth novel Tender Is the Night -
1940
He was died -
1941
His friend Edmund Wilson edited and published an unfinished fifth novel, The Last Tycoon, after Fitzgerald's death.