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Birth
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA. -
Work
He dropped out the Princeton University to join the United States Army during world War I. -
Love
Zelda Sayre agreed to marry him after he published the commercially successful The Side of Paradise. -
Work
His Second novel, The Beautiful and Damned, propelled him further into the cultural elite. -
Work
John V. A. Weaver predicted that, as Fitzgerald matured as a writer, he would become regarded as one of the greatest authors of American literature. -
Work
His third novel The Great Gatsby received generally favorable reviews but was a commercial failure, sailing fewer than 23,000 copies in its first year. -
Work
Following the deterioration of his wife's mental health and her placement in a mental institute for schizophrenia, Fitzgerald completed his final novel, Tender Is the Night. -
Death
Los Ángeles, California, USA -
Work
His friend Edmund Wilson edited and published an unfinished fifth novel, The Last Tycoon, after Fitzgerald's death.