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F. Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896 in St.Paul Minnesota.
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His dad Edward Fitzgerald
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His mom was Molly Fitzgerald
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After graduating from school in 1913, he decided to stay in New Jersey to continue his education.
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He was placed on academic probation and in 1917 he dropped out of school to join the U.S. Army.
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Soon after he joined the army he wrote his first novel
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In June 1918 he was assigned to camp Sheridan near Montgomery Alabama
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In 1919 he was officially discharged from the army
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He quit his job in July of 1919 and returned to St. Paul to rewrite his novel
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Near the end of 1919, he officially commenced his career as a writer of stories for the mass
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A week after “This side of paradise” was published in 1920 Fitzgerald and Zelda we’re married
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Zelda got pregnant a year after their marriage, which motivated the couple to travel back to St. Paul for the birth of their only child Francis Scott
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In 1930 Zelda suffered a breakdown. She was diagnosed with schizophrenia and treated at the Sheppard Pratt hospital in Maryland.
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During that same year they moved multiple times between Delaware and France.
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Fitzgerald struggled with alcoholism throughout his life. It's likely that his heavy drinking contributed to his early death: Fitzgerald died of a heart attack on December 21, 1940, in California.
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She spent the remaining years before her death in 1948, in and out of mental hospitals.
