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He was born the 24 of september of 1896 at Saint Paul, Minnesota -
He was dropped out from Princeton university in 1917 to join USA army for WW1
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Married with Zelda Sayre while he was in Alabama -
It is called "This side of paradise".The novel became a cultural sensation and cemented his reputation as one of the eminent writers of the decade. -
It is called "The beautiful and damned".The novel, propelled him further into the cultural elite -
received generally favorable reviews but was a commercial failure, selling fewer than 23,000 copies in its first year.The Great Gatsby is now hailed by some literary critics as the "Great American Novel" -
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". -
Fitzgerald moved to Hollywood where he embarked upon an unsuccessful career as a screenwriter.
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While living in Hollywood, he cohabited with columnist Sheilah Graham, his final companion before his death
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After a long struggle with alcoholism, he attained sobriety only to die of a heart attack in 1940, at 44. His friend Edmund Wilson edited and published an unfinished fifth novel, "The Last Tycoon", after Fitzgerald's death.