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Fitzgeral was born
He was born in St. paul Minnesota -
First story
Fitzgerald had published his first story in the school newspaper at 13 years old -
School/ after school
He had went to college at Princeton and had wrote for the newspaper there, but after three years he dropped out of college and went to the army -
Met his wife
He met his wife Zelda when he was in the army and was stationed near where she lived -
After the Army
After he got discharged from the army, he went to live in New York City -
First Novel
Fitzgerald published his first novel in 1920, called A Side of Paradise and it turned out to be a immediate bestseller and made him really wealthy -
Married
A week after he published his first novel he felt comfortable financially to marry Zelda -
The Jazz Age
The 1920’s was considered the Jazz Age because of all the music and dancing and Fitzgeralds first novel had sold over 50,000 copies -
His success
Over the course of his career he had written 178 stories and would post them in magazines such as the Saturday evening post. This helped him be financially stable so he could write his novels -
Had a daughter
Him and his wife had a daughter named Francis Scott Fitzgerald -
Moved to France
Fitzgerald had moved to France hoping to spark creativity and then later on published is greatest work -
His greatest Hit
Fitzgerald had published a novel called The Great Gatsby, and it had made a big impact on the American vocabulary -
Tender is The Night
Was one of the novels he wrote but it never amounted to the success The Great Gatsby got -
Screenplays
Fitzgerald had gone to Hollywood to write screenplays, so he could make money as quick as possible as to leave town and to work on his novels -
Fitzgeralds Death
When he was in the middle of writing one of his novels he died of a heart attack