Prior to attending Princeton, Fitzgerald was enrolled in the Newman School, a Catholic prep school in New Jersey, where he met a man by the name of Father Sigourney Fay. Fay encouraged Fitzgerald’s ambitions for achievement. Fitzgerald went on to become a member of the Princeton Class of 1917, however, he tended to neglect his schoolwork and studies in order to pursue his love of literature. Fitzgerald contributed to the Princeton Tiger and also wrote lyrics for the Princeton Triangle Club musicals. Fitzgerald, after being put on academic probation and not being likely to graduate, joined the Army in 1917, where he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the infantry.

In June of 1918, Fitzgerald was stationed at Camp Sheridan, which was close to Montgomery, Alabama. While there, he fell in love with eighteen-year-old belle and youngest daughter of an Alabama Supreme Court Judge Zelda Sayre. After meeting Zelda, he became even more intent on having his novel published, so he re-wrote it and sent it in yet again, but he was rejected once more. Fitzgerald was to be sent overseas just as the war ended, and after his discharge, he moved to New York to seek fame and fortune. Zelda, however, was not willing to wait for Francis to succeed, and she broke off the engagement. After this, Fitzgerald quit his job in New York and returned to his birthplace to rewrite his novel, this time titling it This Side of Paradise. Finally, after three attempts, Scribners accepted his novel. Following this, Fitzgerald assumed his career writing short stories for magazines. Throughout his life, Francis would fall back on this career when he was hard-pressed or unsuccessful in writing his novels.

Fitzgerald made well above income, though none of this wealth actually stuck with him. Francis lacked the ability to manage his finances. When Zelda became pregnant, they took their first trip to Europe, and then returned to St. Paul for the birth of their child in October 1921. Convinced that he would make his riches through his play, The Vegetable, they moved to Great

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