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Francis Scott
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald is born in St. Paul, Minnesota. -
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Attends a Catholic prep school in New Jersey, where he meets father Sigourney Fay, who encourages his dreams of success. -
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Enters Princeton University -
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Neglects studies to write scripts and lyrics for the college musicals and magazines. -
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On academic probation and unlikely to graduate, joins the army. Makes first attempt at a novel, The Romantic Egotist. -
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While at camp Sheridan near Montgomery, Alabama, falls in love with celebrated Belle Zelda Sayre -
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Writes second novel, The Beautiful and Damned. Settles in St. Paul in time for the birth of his only child, (Scottie). -
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Started drinking heavily, triggering frequent domestic rows -
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His political satire, from president to postman, fails. He writes his way out of debt with short stories. -
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Goes to France, where he writes The Great Gatsby. -
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Continues struggling with his fourth none while Zelda turns to ballet, hoping to become a professional dancer -
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Back in the states, Zelda suffers a relapse and enters John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. -
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Goes to Hollywood and earns 1,000 a week working for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. -
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Having written much of a draft of a novel called The Love Of The Last Tycoon, Fitzgerald dies of a heart attack on December 21,1940. -
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Zelda Fitzgerald perished in a fire in Highland Hospital.
