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He was born in St. paul Minnesota
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Fitzgerald had published his first story in the school newspaper at 13 years old
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He had went to college at Princeton and had wrote for the newspaper there, but after three years he dropped out of college and went to the army
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He met his wife Zelda when he was in the army and was stationed near where she lived -
After he got discharged from the army, he went to live in New York City
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Fitzgerald published his first novel in 1920, called A Side of Paradise and it turned out to be a immediate bestseller and made him really wealthy -
A week after he published his first novel he felt comfortable financially to marry Zelda
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The 1920’s was considered the Jazz Age because of all the music and dancing and Fitzgeralds first novel had sold over 50,000 copies
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Over the course of his career he had written 178 stories and would post them in magazines such as the Saturday evening post. This helped him be financially stable so he could write his novels
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Him and his wife had a daughter named Francis Scott Fitzgerald -
Fitzgerald had moved to France hoping to spark creativity and then later on published is greatest work
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Fitzgerald had published a novel called The Great Gatsby, and it had made a big impact on the American vocabulary -
Was one of the novels he wrote but it never amounted to the success The Great Gatsby got -
Fitzgerald had gone to Hollywood to write screenplays, so he could make money as quick as possible as to leave town and to work on his novels
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When he was in the middle of writing one of his novels he died of a heart attack