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He was born in Saint Paul , Minesota
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He attended Princeton University but he dropped out to join the United States Army during World War I.
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He achieved temporary popular success and fortune
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He published the commercially successful "This Side of Paradise".
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In this year he wrote his second novel " The Beautiful and Damned " wich propelled him further into the cultural elite.
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His third novel, "The Great Gatsby " was written in this year, with this novel he recived generally favorable reviews but was a commercial failure, selling fewer than 23,000 copies in its first year.
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Nine years after the publication of The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald completed his fourth novel Tender Is the Night
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He died in Los Angeles, California, U.S.
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His friend Edmund Wilson edited and published an unfinished fifth novel, The Last Tycoon , after Fitzgerald's death.