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He was born on September 24 1896 in St. Paul Minnesota and his parents were Edward and Molly Fitzgerald. -
When he was a member of the Princeton class of 1918, he neglected his academic studies and focused more on his literary training which caused him to fail
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He was put on academic probation, which motivated him to join the army.
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In Montgomery Alabama and met his wife, Zelda
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He was discharged from the army and left to New York to seek his fortune in order to marry Zelda, but she broke off their engagement due to not being able to live off of his small salary
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Left to rewrite his Novel, and returned to St. Paul Minnesota
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Only child, Frances Scott Fitzgerald at the end of 1921 -
Fall of 1922, they wanted to be near Broadway because he wrote a play called “The Vegetable.” It failed at first and he wrote his way out of debt with short stories. -
The Great Gatsby was written, they moved to Paris and the sales of Gatsby were disappointing.
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Zelda wanted to become a ballet dancer but her ballet training damaged her health.
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Treated in Switzerland until September 1931. He then wrote more short stories to pay for his wife’s psychiatric treatment.
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Returned to America in the beginning of 1931, Zelda relapsed and entered a Hospital in Baltimore
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The novel mirrored his marriage of him and his wife.
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1936 and 1937 were called the Crack up Years due to his alcoholism and his inability to write commercial stories. Their daughter was also sent to boarding school because he couldn’t maintain a home for her and was sent at the age of 14. -
Died from a heart attack, he died believing he was a failure because of his alcoholism and his inability to publish novels frequently.