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Birth
He was born in September 24th in Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S. -
Studies
He dropped Princeton University and joined United States Army -
First novel
He published the commercially successful This Side of Paradise, which was the reason his wife, Zelda Sayre, married him. -
Second novel
He published his second novel 'The Beautiful and Damned', which propelled him further into the cultural elite. -
Third novel
His third novel was published 'The Great Gatsby', which received generally favorable reviews but was a commercial failure -
Fourth novel
Fitzgerald completed his final novel, Tender Is the Night, followed by the deterioration of his wife's mental health and her placement in a mental institute for schizophrenia. -
Death
He died of a heart attack in 1940, at 44, after a long stuggle with alcoholism and having an unsuccessful career as a screenwriter in Hollywood. -
Fifth novel
His friend Edmund Wilson edited and published an unfinished fifth novel, The Last Tycoon -
Edited fifth novel
A new edition was published as The Love of the Last Tycoon, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli.