F. Scott Fitzgerald, his full name being: Francis Scott Fitzgerald, was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on September 24, 1896, being the son of Edward and Mary McQuillan Fitzgerald. After His father’s wicker furniture business failed, he started working as a salesman for Procter & Gamble, which kept his family between Buffalo and New York City during the first ten years of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s life. His father lost this job in 1908 when F. Scott Fitzgerald was twelve years old, which caused the family to move back into St.Paul.
F. Scott Fitzgerald did his schooling at St. Paul Academy. His parents transferred him to the Newman School, a strict Catholic preparatory school, which was located in New Jersey, in 1911, at the age of fifteen. He graduated in 1913, and decided to stay in New Jersey to proceed with his artistic development at Princeton University. In 1917, Fitzgerald quit school to join the US Army. He wrote a novel called The
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In 1920 he published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, and in 1922, he published his second novel, The Beautiful and Damned. In 1924, he moved to France, and that was where what would become his greatest novel, The Great Gatsby, was written and published. It was not until after Fitzgerald’s death that the novel gained the title of “one of the greatest American novels ever written.” Soon after the novel Fitzgerald fell into writers block, and became a heavier drinker than he already was. He and his wife Zelda spent much of the late 1920s moving between Delaware and France. His wife soon had mental breakdowns and was admitted into a mental health clinic located in Switzerland. In 1934 Fitzgerald published his fourth novel, Tender is the Night. In 1939, he started working on another novel called The Love of the Last Tycoon, and was halfway finished with the manuscript when he died of a heart attack on December 21, 1940, in Hollywood, California, at the age of