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F. Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896, in Minnesota -
He wrote his first story at around 13 years old
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Fitzgerald attended the Newman School in New Jersey, where a teacher encouraged him to become a writer.
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He started college at Princeton, where he wrote plays and stories for school clubs. -
He left Princeton to join the U.S. Army during World War I.
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While stationed in Alabama, he met Zelda Sayre, who would later become his wife.
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He moved to New York to work in advertising and tried to earn enough money to marry Zelda.
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His first novel, This Side of Paradise, became a huge success and made him famous.
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Soon after his book’s success, Fitzgerald married Zelda Sayre on April 3, 1920. -
He published The Beautiful and Damned and a short story collection called Tales of the Jazz Age.
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The Fitzgeralds moved to Europe, living in Paris and the French Riviera.
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He released his most famous book, The Great Gatsby, which later became an American classic -
Zelda had a mental breakdown, and Scott began drinking more as life got harder for them.
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He released another novel, but it didn’t sell very well at the time.
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Fitzgerald went to California to write movie scripts and started working on another novel.
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He died of a heart attack on December 21, 1940, at the age of 44.