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This is the date that Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on in St. Paul, MN
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F. Scott Fitzgerald graduates college at Princeton University in Princeton, NJ
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After being put on academic probation for being a bad student, Fitzgerald was inspired to join the U.S. Army.
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Fitzgerald was assigned to Camp Sheraton near Montgomery, AL.
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Fitzgerald meets Zelda Sayer, the daughter of a Alabama Supreme Court justice, while at Camp Sheraton.
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Not willing to live off of such a small salary, Zelda broke up with Fitzgerald, leaving him alone in New York, NY.
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Fitzgerald moves back to St. Paul, MN and writes his first novel “This Side of Paradise”
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After WWI had ended, Fitzgerald was discharged from the Army
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Fitzgerald officially commits to writing for newspapers in Minnesota such as “The Saturday Evening Post”.
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Zelda becomes pregnant with their first child Francis Scott Fitzgerald, who would be their only child.
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After getting married to Zelda Sayer in 1920, Fitzgerald wrote his second novel “The Beautiful and Damned”.
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Francis and Zelda move to Great Neck, Long Island in New York to be close to Broadway since Francis has wrote a play.
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After moving to France with Zelda, Francis wrote “The Great Gatsby”, and he would revise it while in Rome later that year.
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Francis and Zelda rent a mansion in Delaware for 2 years while Zelda practices to become a famous ballet dancer
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The Fitzgeralds move back to Paris, where Zelda’s intense ballet training puts her in bad health.
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After having a relapse in her intense ballet training, the Fitzgeralds are forced to move back to the USA in order to get Zelda some help.
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Francis writes his 4th novel, “Tender Is the Night”
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Francis would fall to Alcoholism for 2 years and would be unable to write commercial stories
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Fitzgerald moves to Hollywood to work with MGM
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Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald passes away due to a heart attack.
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Zelda Sayre passes away
