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Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota to Edward and Molly Fitzgerald.
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Shorty after joining the army, Fitzgerald wrote The Romantic Egotist, but it was never published.
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In 1918 he was assigned to Camp Sheridan, near Montgomery, Alabama. While he was there, he met and fell in love with Zelda Sayre—the youngest daughter of an Alabama Supreme Court Justice.
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In 1919, Fitzgerald quit his job to move back to Saint Paul, where he rewrote his novel as “This Side of Paradise”. He had officially started his literary career.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald were officially married.
