![]() ![]() She accepted his proposal, but soon broke it off, worried he wouldn’t be able to support her. He was discharged from the army without having to join the war, and he headed to New York to work for an advertising agency, Barron Collier, in a bid to convince Zelda to marry him. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the infantry and sent to Camp Sheridan in Alabama that is where he met Zelda Sayre, who would become the love of his life. Fitzgerald continued to write, and Scribner’s rejected another novel – The Romantic Egotist – but encouraged him to keep trying. He was stationed at Fort Leavenworth under Dwight Eisenhower, future President and General of the Army. In 1917 he dropped out and joined the army, having spent more energy on writing than on his academic work. At Princeton, he met Chicago socialite Ginevra King, who would eventually inspire many characters in his novels and stories, including Daisy in The Great Gatsby. He continued to hone his skills at Princeton University, where he wrote for the Nassau Lit, the Princeton Tiger and Princeton Triangle Club his involvement in the latter led him to submit a novel to Charles Scribner’s Sons, which the editor rejected. He attended two Catholic schools, where he began as a published writer, having the first of his stories – a detective story – in print at the age of 13. ![]() He would later write: “Well, three months before I was born, my mother lost her other two children… I think I started then to be a writer.” His was an upper-middle-class family and his two siblings, including the sister he was named after, Louise Scott Fitzgerald, died before he was born. Scott Fitzgerald, was born in Minnesota, USA, on 24 September 1896. Scott Fitzgeraldįrancis Scott Key Fitzgerald, better known as F. “You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.” – F.
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