F. Scott Fitzgerald Inspirations and biography

             Scott Fitzgerald was born in Minnesota on September the 24th, 1896 to Edward .
             Fitzgerald, a failed furniture salesman and Mary McQuilan. Fitzgerald was raised a .
             catholic in an upper middle class environment.
             Fitzgerald started writing from a young age and had several stories published in his .
             high school newspaper.
             He joined Princeton university for a short time but then dropped out and joined the .
             army in 1917 and was commissioned a second lieutenant. Around the same time he .
             began writing and submitting stories to magazines. While in the army, Fitzgerald wrote .
             The Romantic Egotist (later to be published as This Side of Paradise) and was .
             rejected twice by publishers.
             In 1918, Fitzgerald traveled to camp Sheridan, Alabama where he fell in love with .
             Zelda Sayre, the youngest daughter of a supreme court judge. .
             The war ended in 1919, just before Fitzgerald was to travel overseas to fight. It was at .
             this point that Zelda broke off their engagement because she was unwilling to live on .
             Fitzgerald's small salary.
             Fitzgerald then moved back to Minnesota where he returned to again write This Side of .
             Paradise. He resubmitted the novel to Charles Scribner's and Sons and it was .
             published a year later on March the 26th, 1920. Fitzgerald was made famous and rich .
             almost over night and a week after This Side of Paradise was released to the public .
             he married Zelda Sayre.
             At the same time as writing his novels, Fitzgerald was prolific as a magazine story .
             writer and he had a great following as, unlike many of the writers of his time, he .
             connected with his audience. Fitzgerald achieved a great deal of his wealth from his .
             magazine stories. A year after the Fitzgerald's married, Fitzgerald wrote The Beautiful and the Damned.
             Three years later in 1924, Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby (published in 1925). .
             Before writing this novel, Zelda had an affair with a naval aviator and this became the .
             basis of The Great Gatsby.