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F Scott Fitzgerald Biography

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I was born on July 24, 1900 in Montgomery Alabama. I grew up in a very privileged home. I was the youngest of six kids so I was the baby of the family. I was very spoiled as a child and I thought that the entire world revolved around me. In 1909 I started to take ballet, an interest that I would pursue my entire life (American National Biography).
In 1914 I entered Sidney Lanier High School. I was very rebellious in high school, my father forbade me to go out at night but I would climb out of my bedroom window. My entire high school experience was just being rebellious. In 1918 a military camp called Camp Sheridan was placed outside of Montgomery Alabama, my home town. In that camp was F. Scott Fitzgerald who I had met at a country club dance …show more content…

On April 3, 1920 we married in New York City. My parents still didn’t approve of the marriage so they did not attend the wedding.(Scott and Zelda).
F. Scott Fitzgerald became on of the most popular writers of the 1920’s. He had become famous across seas. In order for him to continue to become a famous writer we had to travel across seas. So we begun to travel back and forth between Europe and the United States. When i was only 21 i had my first and only child on october 21, 1921.(American National Biography).
In 1930 while in Europe i suffered my first breakdown, I was put in mental hospitals. After a few short stays in two hospitals in Europe, Malmaison outside Paris and Valmont in Switzerland, on June 5, 1930 I entered Prangins Hospital at Nyon, Switzerland, in September 1931, i was released from Prangins. My family and I returned home with no major breakdowns until my father died in November 1931 and in February 1932 entered Phipps Psychiatric Clinic in Baltimore Maryland. I wrote my version of the marriage in the Mental hospital, Save Me the Waltz, in six weeks. Scott, who was working on Tender Is the Night with difficulty, didn’t approve of my use of the same stories. (American National

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