Enrolled in Princeton, he abandoned his university studies (1917) to seek glory in the American expeditionary army, which was then fighting in the Great European War.
In the army he made the first draft of his novel, initially titled The romantic egoist, which was published as On this side of paradise (1920) and which made him a rich man.
He married Zelda Sayre on April 2, 1920.
Beautiful and cursed (1922), which narrates the anxieties and dissipations of a rich couple, was not as popular as the first, but his stories were a great success and with them he was able to pay for the extravagant and luxurious lifestyle with Zelda.
Of the more than 150 stories she wrote, 46 were collected in four books: Young Girls and Philosophers (1920), Tales of the Jazz Age (1922), All the Sad Men (1926), and Reveille (1935). In 1924 the Fitzgeralds travel to the French Riviera. In five months he finished The Great Gatsby (1925), where the pursuit of success is exposed. Considered his great masterpiece, it sold poorly.
El 21 de diciembre de 1940, alcoholizado y exhausto, F. Scott Fitzgerald fallece enHollywood, California, frente a la máquina de escribir.