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Born in September in 1896 in St. Paul his parents had medium money his fathers family had money but his father didn't
have much and had an inferiority complex. His family was Irish Catholic, and went to a Catholic school. His mother had some money. He loved football.
In 1913 he went to Princeton and studied dramatics. He received
bad grades. He then flunked out his sophomore year but got back in.
A star is born in 1917. Fitzgerald dropped out of college and joined the army . He was on leave for a weekend when he met Zelda. In 1919 he fell in love and they got engaged. He started writing stories in magazines, and in 1920 his first book, 'This Side of Paradise', was published. The next month he married Zelda and the money began rolling in.
From 1921 to 1929 was Fitzgeralds "up-time". His wife and he were making and spending a lot of money and doing a lot of partying. In 1921 his daughter Scottie was born and in 1922 he had two more stories published. In 1925 he had Gatsby......

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