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Born in St. Paul, Minnesota
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Princeton University, rights for the Princeton triangle club in the Nassau literary magazine
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Leaves college without graduating to join the army during World War, commissioned as a second lieutenant in the US Army -
After the war, he began revising his first novel which became this side of paradise -
While stationed in Alabama, he meets Zelda sayre daughter of an Alabama Supreme Court judge he marries Zelda in April 1920 and published his first novel this side of paradise which becomes a hit and also becomes a leading voice of the jazz age -
Publishes the beautiful and damned gains fame but struggles with finances and heavy drinking
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Daughter, Francis Scottie Fitzgerald is born -
Fitzgerald, move to the French. Rivera begins writing the great Gatsby.
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Publishes the great Gatsby, his most famous novel, the novel receives modest sales, but later becomes an American classic -
Zelda suffers a mental breakdown and is diagnosed with schizophrenia, spends much time in hospitals for treatment
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Publishes tender is the night inspired by their troubled marriage and Zelda’s illness
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he wrote a series of essays Called the crack up for esquire magazine, revealing his struggles with depression and failure
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Goes to Hollywood to work as a screenwriter and begins relationship with Sheilah Graham ad journalist
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Fitzgerald, dies of a heart attack in Hollywood California at age 44 he was buried in Rockville Maryland
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His unfinished novel, the last tycoon is published posthumorously