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He was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S. -
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his life to the joined to the army
He grew up into a middle-class family Fitzgerald was raised primarily in New York state. He attended Princeton University but he dropped out in 1917 to join the United States Army during World War I -
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After world war 1 and his first nove
After the war, in Alabama he met Zelda Sayre, a Southern debutante who belonged to Montgomery's exclusive country-club set.
Later Zelda agreed to marry him after he published the commercially successful This Side of Paradise (1920). -
His first novel
This Side of Paradise,The novel became a cultural sensation and cemented his reputation as one of the eminent writers of the decade. -
His second novel, other novels and what he did in that time
The Beautiful and Damned (1922), propelled him further into the cultural elite.
To maintain his affluent lifestyle, he wrote numerous stories for popular magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's Weekly, and Esquire. During this period, Fitzgerald frequented Europe, where he befriended modernist writers and artists of the "Lost Generation" expatriate community, including Ernest Hemingway. -
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His third novel and his final novel
His third novel, The Great Gatsby (1925), received generally favorable reviews but was a commercial failure, selling fewer than 23,000 copies in its first year. Despite its lackluster debut, The Great Gatsby is now hailed by some literary critics as the "Great American Novel". Following the deterioration of his wife's mental health and her placement in a mental institute for schizophrenia, Fitzgerald completed his final novel, Tender Is the Night (1934). -
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the grat depression to his death
Struggling financially because of the declining popularity of his works amid the Great Depression, Fitzgerald moved to Hollywood where he embarked upon an unsuccessful career as a screenwriter. While living in Hollywood, he cohabited with columnist Sheilah Graham, his final companion before his death. After a long struggle with alcoholism, he attained sobriety only to die of a heart attack in 1940, at 44. -
the publication of his unfinished work
His friend Edmund Wilson edited and published an unfinished fifth novel, The Last Tycoon (1941), after Fitzgerald's death.
Set in the 1930s, The Last Tycoon traces the life of Hollywood studio manager Monroe Stahr, clearly based on Irving Thalberg -
The Love of the Last Tycoon
In 1993, a new edition was published as The Love of the Last Tycoon, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli.