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Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald is born in St Paul, Minnesota to parents Mary McQuillan and Edward Fitzgerald.
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In this year, Fitzgerald graduates from his preparatory school (the Newman School) and begins his education at Princeton University.
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Due to alcoholism and poor grades, Fitzgerald dropped out and enrolled for military service.
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World War I ended before Fitzgerald even left America for Europe. At the time, Fitzgerald was working on (previously rejected) novel entitled the Romantic Egoist, which he had thought could be his final work if he died in the Great War.
