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1940 BCE
Died
He died in Los Angeles, California when he was 44 years old -
1917 BCE
he changed his live
He attended Princeton University but he dropped out in 1917 to join the United States Army during World War I -
1896 BCE
Born
he was born in this year -
Marry
Zelda agreed to marry him after he published the commercially This Side of Paradise.
The novel becamea a cultural sensation. -
His second novel
Was The Beautiful and Damned, after this I he wrote some stories for popular magazines for example The Saturday, Evening Post, Esquire... -
His Cather’s inflence
He was particularly influenced by Cather's 1923 work, A Lost Lady, which features a wealthy married socialite pursued by a number of romantic suitors and who symbolically embodies the American dream. -
His third novel
Was The Great Gatsby, it received generally favorable reviews but was a commercial failure, selling fewer than 23,000 copies in the first year. -
Final novel
It was Tender Is the Night, Following the deterioration of his wife's mental health and her placement in a mental institute for schizophrenia. -
Fourth novel
He completed his fourth novel Tender Is the Night in 1934. By this time, the field of literature had greatly changed due to the onset of the Great Depression. -
Edmud Wilson
His friend edited and published an unfinished fifth novel, The Last Tycoon. -
Matthew J.Bruccoli
a new edition was published as The Love of the Last Tycoon.