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His birth
He was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota on the second floor of 481 royal avenue to Edward and molly Fitzgerald -
Failure as a student
He joined the army after his failure as a student -
Meeting women
He met the youngest daughter of a Supreme Court judge when he was deployed -
Army
He was discharged from the army -
Move to New York
Went to New York City to marry Zelda but she broke up the engagement because she was unwilling to live off his small salary -
Job
He quit his job in July of 1919 to move to Saint Paul to rewrite his novel as this site of paradise -
His career
Fitzgerald pursues his career and publishes stories for the mass circulation of magazines -
Marriage
Fitzgerald and Zelda get married in New York -
Pregnancy
Zelda becomes pregnant so they move back to Saint Paul -
Moving away
The couple moved to great neck, Long Island to be near broadway -
Going to France
They want to France in the spring where the great gatsby was made, he revised it in Rome -
Moving back to America
They moved back to America where they rented out a mansion in Delaware where Zelda started doing dancing to become a professional Dancer -
Zeldas first breakdown
Zelda suffered her first breakdown, during this time Fitzgerald wrote short stories to pay for her treatment -
Tender is the night
Zelda was moved to John Johnson’s hospital while Fitzgerald wrote his novel, tender is the night, which was about a couple similar to themselves -
First novel
He wrote his first novel The romantic egotist