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F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in Minnesota. His parents were Edward and Molly Fitzgerald -
Fitzgerald started school at Princeton in 1915 but never went on to graduate. -
Due to Fitzgerald‘s lack of concentration on his studies and bad grades, he dropped out of college and joined the army. -
The Scribner press declined his book shortly after -
Fitzgerald Was assigned to camp Sheridan where he shorty met Zelda, the daughter of an Alabama Supreme Court judge -
He moved to New York in hopes of marrying Zelda and starting a life together -
After Zelda broke his heart, not wanting to live off of his low salary
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It’s here where he rewrites his first novel, into “This Side of Paradise” -
By scribners -
Such as: The Saturday evening post, which becomes one of his most famous writings. -
A week after his novel was published -
Based on New York cafe society during the jazz age -
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Shortly after, they move back to Saint Paul -
Her name was Francis -
They wanted to be closer to Broadway because of a play Fitzgerald had wrote a play called “the vegetable” but the play failed and Fitzgerald wrote his way out of debt with short stories -
Where he wrote the Great Gatsby -
While he was in Rome -
They rented a mansion in Delaware for two years, and Zelda started ballet training hoping to become a professional dancer -
Zeldas intense ballet training damaged her health -
Was treated at a clinic in Switzerland for a year and Fitzgerald had to put his work on pause and write short stories again to pay for her treatment -
Zelda relapsed a year later where she went to John Hopkins hospital in Baltimore
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This novel examines the deterioration of a relationship of a psychiatrist and a mental patient -
Which effects his writing a lot and causes his popularity to decline -
Worked with MGM as a screenwriter until 1939 -
Was halfway written when he died -
From a heart attack