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Born September 24 1896 in St. Paul Minnesota on the second floor if 481 Laurel Avenue.
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due to his academic failure from writing, he joined the army
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Shortly after joining the army, he wrote his first novel, "The Romantic Egotist"
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Fitzgerald was assigned to Camp Sheridan where he would meet Zelda Sayer.
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Left the army to meet the love of his life in New York. but it didn't work out Zelda broke off the engagement due to his low salary.
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he quit his job to pursue writing and rewrote his novel as "This Side of Paradise" and it was accepted.
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near the end of 1919, he officially commenced his career as a writer of stories for mass-circulation magazines.
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A week after his first novel was published in 1920 Fitzgerald and Zelda were married in New York.
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The second novel called "The Beautiful and Damned", which chronicles the New York Cafe society during the Jazz Age.
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Zelda became pregnant a year after being married which motivated them to move back to St. Paul for the birth of their only child Francis Scott.
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Moved to great neck long island in order to be near broadway because Fitzgerald had written a play called "The Vegetable". The play failed at its tryout.
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Because of the play failing, Fitzgerald wrote his way out of debt with his short stories.
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in the spring of 1921, the Fitzgeralds moved to France where the Great Gatsby was written.
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They were trying to get away from the distractions of France. they moved to American towards the end of 1926
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Zelda started ballet training with the hopes of becoming a Profesional dancer but the ballet training damaged her healing when she returned back to paris
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Zelda stuffed her first breakdown and was treated at Pragins Clinic in Switzerland.
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