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He was born September forth 1896 in Minnesota
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He was a member of the Princeton class of 1917
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He put on academic probation, which motivated him to join the army in 1917.
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In June 1918 he was assigned to a Camp Sheridan near Montgomery, Alabama. Where he met Zelda his future wife.
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He officially commenced his career as a writer for the circulation magazines around the end of 1919.
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He quiet his job at 1919 and started rewriting “This side of paradise” which follows the life of Amory Blaine.
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Zelda got pregnant with their only child Francis Scott in 1920. They returned to St.Paul for her birth.
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He was married in New York with Zelda a week after “This side of paradise” was published in 1920.
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In April of 1937 his wife suffered her first breakdown where she had to be treated at Prague’s clinic till September 1931.
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He completed his fourth novel “Tender is the Night” in 1934 which mirrored the relationship between Zelda and him during the time it was written.
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He moved to Hollywood alone at the summer of 1937 to work with MGM as a screenwriter until 1938.
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He began writing “The love of the last Tycoon” in 1939.
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after writing more than half of the book “ The love of the last tycoon” he died from a heart attack on December 21st of 1940.
