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Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on September 24, 1896. He was named after his second cousin, the author of the National Anthem.

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After his fathers' failure they lived off of his mothers' inheritance.

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His fist writing to appear in print was a detective story in the school newspaper when he was thirteen.

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Fitzgerald attended Princeton, he was apart of the Princeton Triangle Club musicals. While in the club he wrote scripts and lyrics for them.

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Unlikely to graduate, Fitzgerald joined the army in 1917.

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In June 1918 he was assigned to Camp Sheridan, near Montgomery, Alabama. Here he fell in love with Zelda Sarye.

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Fitzgerald returned to St. Paul and rewrote his novel "This Side of Paradise."

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Fitzgerald publication of The Side of Paradise made him overnight famous at 24 years old

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A week after Fitzgerald became famous overnight, he married Zelda Sayre

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After a summer in Connecticut, the Fitzgerald took an apartment in New York, while there he wrote his second novel, "The Beautiful and Damned".

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Francis and Zelda settled in St. Paul and their child was born on October 1921. Her nickname is Scottie. Life on the Island was not good because there was conflicts between Zelda and Francis that usually started due to drinking bouts.

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He called the 1920's the Jazz Age.

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The Great Gatsby

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After returning from Europe, Zelda commenced ballet training to become a professional dancer

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During the 1920s, his income from all sources averaged under $25,000 a year good money at a time when a schoolteacher's average annual salary was $1,299, but not a fortune. Despite this, he was unable to manage his own finances

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In 1932, while a patient at Johns Hopkins, Zelda wrote Save me the Waltz. He regarded he was pre-empting the material he was using his in novel progress.

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In California, Fitzgerald fell in love with movie columnist Shelilah Graham. Their relationship endured despite his blenders

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He died writing The Love of the Last Tycoon in 1939. He died of a heart attack, thinking he was a failure, but he was recognized in 1960, as an American enduring writer