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Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896, in St. Paul Minnesota. His full name is Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald to Mary McQuillan and Edward Fitzgerald. He also has a sister.
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Fitzgerald went to Newman School in New Jersey. This is where he met a mentor of his, Father Sigourney Fay. This is also when he started focusing on extra-curricular activities.
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In 1913, Fitzgerald enters Princeton University. He went already deciding on going for a career in writing musical comedies. He also failed quite a few subjects.
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In 1917, Fitzgerald makes his first attempt at a novel called The Romantic Egotist while on academic probation that makes it truly unlikely that he would ever graduate. The Romantic Egotist was 120,000-word novel that he sent to many publishers, and they liked it but they refused to publish it. He also joined the army.
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Fitzgerald gains overnight fame over the publication of This Side of Paradise on March 26, 1920.
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Fitzgerald marries his muse, Zelda Sayre. He married her instantly after his rise to fame. She later becomes ill and this changes quite a few of his career and personal choices.
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In the September of 1921, Fitzgerald publishes his first short story collection, Flappers and Philosophers. It was also his relay into short stories, which got him through some very hard personal and economic times.
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Fitzgerald's first and only daughter. She goes on to be a writer and journalist, taking after her father.
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Fitzgerald wrote his second novel in 1921 called The Beautiful and Damned. For the birth of his first and only child, Frances Scott Fitzgerald.
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In the past year, Fitzgerald started heavily drinks and such and started falling into debt, so in 1923 he wrote a political satire called From President to Postman. From President to Post fails. In order to make it through the hard times by writing short stories.
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Fitzgerald goes to France where he writes The Great Gatsby, one of his most famous works, in 1924. Initial book sales were rather disappointing, though.
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In 1937, Fitzgerald wrote The Crack-Up, but his downfall continues. He is in debt, sick, and drunk. He couldn't even write commercially.
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Fitzgerald goes to Hollywood in 1937 to work for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He earned a thousand dollars a week.
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Fitzgerald died of a heart attack at the age of 44 in 1940 in Hollywood. His final resting place is Maryland, US.
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