F. Scott Fitzgerald was the son of a well-to-do Minnesota Family. He was born in Saint Paul in 1896 and attended a series of Roman Catholic schools. Fitzgerald attended Princeton University. However, he leaves in 1917 because of his poor academic records. He then joins the United States army, which was then entering World War I. While in basic training in Montgomery, Alabama, he meets high-spirited eighteen-year-old Zelda Sayre. They married in 1920 and she became the model for many of the female characters in his fiction. From 1924 until 1931 the Fitzgeralds made
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