Francis Scott Fitzgerald’s writing career revolved around Zelda and alcohol. His success of his novel let him marry his wife, Zelda. After several years of drinking Fitzgerald died in Hollywood of a heart attack at the age of forty-four only half way through with his novel. He was born in St. Paul, Minnesota on September 24, 1896 to Edward Fitzgerald and Mary McQuillan. His father opened a wicker furniture store in St. Paul that soon failed and he then was a salesman at Procter & Gamble which made them have to move to New York. When Fitzgerald was twelve his Father was let go from Procter & Gamble. They then moved back to St. Paul where they lived off of his mother’s inheritance. He attended St. Paul Academy; when he was fifteen he went to …show more content…
Army. He was worried that he might die in World War 1, so he quickly wrote the novel The Romantic Egotist. The novel was reject by Charles Scribner’s Sons, but they said to send it back when it had been revised. June of 1918 he was sent to Camp Sheridan close to Montgomery, Alabama where he fell in love with Zelda Sayre. Zelda was one of the daughters of the Alabama Supreme Court judge. Fitzgerald revised his novel and sent it back Scribners, but once again it was rejected. The war ended in November just before he was supposed to be sent overseas. Fitzgerald was then discharged in 1919 and went to New York to find success in hopes of marrying Zelda. Zelda did not want to live off of Francis’ low advertisement paycheck; so she then broke off the engagement. Fitzgerald went back home to St. Paul to work on his first novel which he described This Side of Paradise as “a quest …show more content…
Francis started to write short stories to make an income. Fitzgerald’s drinking problem became a problem and Zelda drank too but she was not an alcoholic. Several people began to not take Fitzgerald as a serious writer because of his drinking problem. Francis and his family moved to France in 1924. Valescure is where he wrote The Great Gatsby. His most famous novel, The Great Gatsby, was published in April in 1925 which depicts the “Roaring Twenties”. Soon Francis’ life began to go downhill he became an alcoholic and his wife, Zelda, had a mental breakdown in 1930 being treated in Maryland and then hospitalized in