Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896, in St. Paul, Minnesota. His father, Edward Fitzgerald, owned a family business that was selling furniture in St. Paul. When the company went out of business in 1898, his father picked up his family and moved out to Syracuse, New York where his sister was born Annabel Fitzgerald. Two years later his father moves the family to Buffalo, New York in turn for accepting a job offer as a salesman.When hi father lost his job in buffalo, he returned to St. Paul and entered the St. Paul Academy in September of 1908. In 1913 he entered Princeton University with the class of 1917. He drops out his junior year to take a year off and graduates with the class of 1918. He then is commissioned as infantry 2nd lieutenant while he is on academic probation. The Army sends him to Camp Sheridan in Montgomery, Alabama where he meets Zelda at a country club dance.Zelda