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He and Zelda lived lavishly and spent most of the money he earned from his wiritng
They moved from Paris to other cities in the French Riviera and back to Paris frequently
When the stock market crashed, so did Fitzgerald's career and private life
Zelda suffered from a series of nervous breakdowns in 1930 and was hospitalized in Europe and the U.S.
Fitzgerald struggled in the 1930s with alcoholism and with his marriage
HE continued to write novels and stories during this time
He had a contract with MGM and wrote serveral screen-plays in Hollywood
He was working on his fifth novel, The Last Tycoon, when he died of a heart attack at 44 in Hollywood
Zelda died in a hospital fire in North Carolina in 1948
This Side of Paradise
The Beautiful and the Damned
"Winter Dreams"
The Great Gatsby
The Last Tycoon (Unfinished published posthumously)
Three Comrades (uncredited)
Marie Antoinette (uncredited)
Winter Carnival (uncredited)
The Women (uncredited)
Red Headed Woman (uncredited)
Born in St. Paul, Minnesota
Attended Princeton University where he wrote for the newspaper and participated in drama club
Joined army before graduating and met his wife, Zelda Sayre, in 1918 while stationed in the South
A New York publisher rejected the manuscript of his novel The Romantic Egoist.
He worked for and advertising company while living in New York City after the army
He then moved back to St. Paul to revise his novel
The publisher accepted the revision and new title This Side of Paradise
He and Zelda made their first trip to Europe in 1921 but returned to St. Paul for the birth of their daughter, Frances Scott(Scottie)
While in France and Italy, he wrote and revised his most famous novel The Great Gatsby
Dramatic social and political change
Major economic growth
19th Amendment
Birth of Mass Culture
Ready to wear clothing and radios
Model T Ford ($260 in 1924)
The Jazz Age(Dance and "moral disasters")
Prohibition
The Great Migration and the National Origins Act of 1924