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He was born on sept 24, in Saint Paul Minnesota. He was raised in N.Y. And attended the Princeton University. Due to failing he dropped out. -
Since Fitzgerald failed his writing classes he decided to dropped out of the University, and join the army. -
He was assigned to a camp shared in Montgomery Alabama, here he met Zelda Zayre the youngest daughter of an Alabama Supreme Court Judge.
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In 1919, Fitzgerald was discharge from the army and decided to go back to N.Y., to seek his fortune so he can marry Zelda. But Zelda did not want to live off his small salary and she broke the engagement.
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Fitzgerald quit his job in N.Y., and return to Saint Paul to rewrite his Nobel This Side of Paradise. This Nobel was accepted by Maxwell Perkins. -
Fitzgerald’s Nobel The Side of Paradise was published and a week later he married Zelda in N.Y. -
The Fitzgerald’s decide to return to Saint Paul so Zelda can give birth there. Zelda gives birth in October to a girl which she name Frances Scott Fitzgerald. -
The Fitzgerald’s move to Great Neck so Fitzgerald could be closed to Broadway, because he wrote a play called The Vegetable. This play failed the tryout and Fitzgerald started to write short stories that help him pay his debts.
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Fitzgerald wrote the Nobel The Great Gatsby and revised it between 1924-1925, at this time the family was in route to Paris when the Nobel was published. But this achievement received critical praised and the Nobels sales were very disappointing so Fitzgerald remain in France until 1926.
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This time the Fitzgerald’s rented a house in Delaware for two years. During this time Zelda decides to take ballet trainings, with hopes of becoming a professional dancer. -
Due to the ballet trainings that Zelda was taking they were so intense that they damaged Zelda’s health.
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Zelda was treated at a clinic in Switzerland for a whole year until 1931. So Fitzgerald had to pause his Nobel and start writing short stories to pay for Zelda’s psychiatric treatment.
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Fitzgerald wanted to write a Nobel, but Zelda after a year of being there relapsed again and was taken to the John Hopkin hospital in Baltimore.
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This Nobel is about examining the deterioration of a marriage between an American psychiatric and a wealthy mental patient. This Nobel merit the relationship between Zelda and Scott at the time it was written. -
Within this period due to Fitzgerald’s alcoholism and his inability to write his life was categorized as the crack up years. Fitzgerald could not maintain his daughter Scott and at the age of 14 he send her to a boarding school.
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Fitzgerald move to Hollywood alone, to work with MGM as a screen writer until 1938 -
As a free lancer he had already done half of the draft of this Nobel The Love of the last Tycoon, when he died of a heart attack on December, 1940. Fitzgerald died believing he was a failure because he could not published as many nobles and his alcoholism.
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When Elbert Wilson criticized The revival of the Nobel The Great Gatsby, it renew interest within the readers. They did a classic in the 20th century American fiction. After Fitzgerald’s achievements he is considered one of the greatest American authors of all times.