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F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul Minnesota on September 24, 1896 -
He was on Academic probation because he was failing school which then motivated him to be in the army -
Fitzgerald quit his job and returned to St. Paul to rewrite his novel as this side of paradise. It was accepted by editor Maxwell Perkins
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Fitzgerald novel started to appear in bookstores and became a instant success. This side of paradise sold 40,000 copies in the first year -
Fitzgerald and Zelda got married and then stayed happily married and had a kid -
Winter his wife became pregnant as he worked on his second novel the Beautiful and Damned the couple travel to his home in St. Paul Minnesota to have a child
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In the fall Fitzgerald wanted to move to Great Neck, Long Island in order to be near broadway -
His second book was The Beautiful and Damned he finished it in New York City
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One of his first plays was call The Vegetable
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He went to France in the spring to write the grate gatsby
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The book is about Jay gatsby and his love for beautiful Daisy Buchanan and is was published
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Fitzgerald went back to France in the spring where Zelda’s intense ballet work damaged her health and to contributed to the couples estrangement
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The Fitzgeralds returned to America in the fall just to move back
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Zelda suffered a relapse and entered Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore
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The last book he made was The Last Tycoon it was an unfinished novel it eventually got published it contain six complete chapters