Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. The names Fitzgerald chose indicate his parents' pride in his father's origins. His father, Edward, was from Maryland, loyal to the Old South and its morals. Fitzgerald's mother, Mary McQuillan (also known as Mollie), was the daughter of an Irish immigrant who became wealthy as a wholesale grocer in St. Paul. Both of his parents were Catholic. The Fitzgerald family moved between St. Paul and New York depending on his father's job, until he was twelve. Scott's early writings were about school, school newspaper articles and the like, in one of the private schools he attended he met a father who motivated him to follow his passionate works more deeply. Subsequently, once he entered the collage, Fitzgerald neglected his studies to dedicate himself to his literary apprenticeship. He was very involved in the Princeton Triangle Club. He was put on probation and unlikely to graduate, Fitzgerald joined the Army, convinced he would die in the war. Although, while stationed near Montgomery, he met Zelda Sayre, daughter of the Alabama Supreme Court Justice, and fell madly in love with her, as soon as he could and after the war, he headed to New York believing he would gain immediate realizations and he would get married. Zelda; but what he achieved was only an advertising career. The engagement ended because Zelda was unwilling to live on the small salary it could provide, this led Scott to become a drunk and retreat to St. Paul to rewrite a novel he had begun in Princeton. This Side of Paradise was published and made Fitzgerald famous almost overnight; a week later he married Zelda. They moved around a lot and one of their stops was Long Island. They settled in St. Paul for a time for the birth of their only child......middle of paper......Works CitedFitztgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Scribner: New York, 2004. Print.Turnbull, Andrew. Scott Fitzgerald A Biography. Collier Books: New York, 1962. Print. Matthew J. Bruccoli. "A Brief Life of Fitzgerald." University of South Carolina. The University of South Carolina Board of Trustees, December 4, 2003. http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/biography.html, March 24, 2014. Arthur Mizener. "F. Scott Fitzgerald. Encyclopedia Britannica. Last updated July 2, 2013. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/208897/F-Scott-Fitzgerald, March 24, 2014. Gold, Robert S. "Fitzgerald, Francis Scott Key (1896-1940)." Encyclopedia of World Biography. Ed. Suzanne M. Bourgoin, 1998.http://find.galenet.com/srcx/infomark.do?&source=gale&srcprod=DISC&userGroupName=miss64567&prodId=DC&tabID=T001&docId =EK1631002213&type=retrieve&contentSet=GBRC&version=1.0, March 24 2014.