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He was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA. -
He joined to the USA's Army. -
He published one of his first novels, This Side of Paradise, and he earn enough money to be able to marry his girlfriend. He was inspired by H.G.Wells and Sir Compton Mackenzie´s. -
He published The Beautiful and Damned, a novel that propelled him further into the cultural elite. -
He published his third novel, The Great Gatsby, receiving lots of favorable reviews but selling fewer than 23000 copies in its first year. Years later, the novel is known as the "Great American Novel" -
He completes his final novel, Tender is the Night. His wife was placed in a mental institute for schizophrenia. -
Because of the declininig popularity of his job, he moved to Hollywood where he died due to a heart attack at 44. -
Fitgerald's friend published his unfinished fifth novel, The Last Tycoon. In 1993, a new edition of this novel was published by Matthew J.Bruccoli.