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Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24th, 1984. He was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. -
Published his first story at 13 in his school, St. Paul Academy's, newspaper.
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Attended Newman School which was a Catholic prep school in New Jersey.
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Attended Princeton writing musicals, and publishing stories in the Princeton Tiger Humor magazine. -
He joined the army, not being deployed but stationed in Camp Sheridan. He met his wife, Zelda Sayre, while stationed and they wed once she was sure he had enough money. -
He left Princeton early without graduating, his academic suffering because of his devotion to writing.
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He was discharged from the army and moved to New York City, pursuing his love for writing.
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A week after his success, he finally felt comfortable enough to ask Zelda to marry him which she did. They eventually had a daughter named Francis as well. -
He published his first novel named "This Side of Paradise", which was an immediate bestseller and made him extremely wealthy.
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Published "The Beautiful and Damned" and a short story collection named Tales of the Jazz Age.
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Fitzgerald moved to France hoping to spark his creativity. -
He published his most popular and best work, The Great Gatsby which was a huge success. It's most likely still the best-selling American classic book in modern times too.
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Published a novel "Tender is the Night", which was popular, but didn't come close to The Great Gatsby. He was struggling mentally around this time, becoming an alcoholic and his career was starting to tumble despite his popularity.
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Fitzgerald came to Hollywood to write screenplays to make money as quickly as possible. He was struggling financially at the time and just wanted to work on what he was really passionate about, his own novels. -
He was halfway through his last novel named The Last Tycoon, dying before he could finish it.
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Fitzgerald passed away from a heart attack, believed to be the greatest writer of the 20th century by most.