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Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24th 1896 in St. Paul Minnesota. To his parents Edward and Molly Fitzgerald.
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Scott Fitzgerald was apart of from Princeton University class of 1917. However he did not do well in school, so he wasn't there for very long.
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After Fitzgerald got put on academic probation, he joined the army in 1917.
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Right after Fitzgerald joined the army he wrote his first book called “The Romantic Egotist”. Which ended up getting rejected by Charles Scribners Sons.
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In 1918 Fitzgerald got assignment to Camp Sheridan in Alabama where he meet Zelda Sayer. Who would later become his wife.
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Fitzgerald was discharged from the Army in 1919.
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Fitzgerald left his job and went back to his hometown (St. Paul) to rewrite his story to become “The side of Paradise”. Which is based off of the life of someone named Amory Blaine. This book was accepted by the editor Maxwell Perkins.
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Only a week after his novel “This side of Paradise” was published he married Zelda Sayre in New York.
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About a year after Fitzgerald was married his wife gave birth to their only son Francis Scott Fitzgerald in St. Paul Minnesota.
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The Fitzgerald family moved to Great Neck Long Island because Fitzgerald needed to be near Broadway for his play “The Vegetable”. However his play failed, so he had to write a lot of short story’s not to be in debt.
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The Fitzgerald family went to France in 1924 where Fitzgerald wrote “ The Great Gatsby” which he edited in Rome between 1924 through 1925.
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Back in America after caring for his wife, Fitzgerald had enough money and time to write his fourth book “Tender is the The Night”. Which was mostly likely based off of Zelda and Fitzgerald’s relationship.
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Fitzgerald moved to Hollywood by himself in the summer of 1937 to work with MGM. Until the next year where he wet to work for Esquire as a freelance script writer.
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He started writing his book “The love of the last Tycoon”. He only ended up writing about half of it.
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Fitzgerald died suddenly from a heart attack in December of 1940.
