Short answers, pulled from the story.
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald arrived in the world on the 24th of September 1896. He was born into a middle-class Catholic family in Saint Paul, Minnesota before his family relocated to Buffalo, New York.
Ginevra King became the first girl F. Scott Fitzgerald ever loved during his sophomore year at Princeton University. Her upper-class family belittled his courtship because of his lower-class status and she married a wealthy Chicago businessman in September 1918.
This Side of Paradise appeared in bookstores on the 26th of March 1920 and became an instant success selling approximately 40,000 copies in the first year. The work received critical acclaim from H. L. Mencken who hailed it as the best American novel of the year.
Fitzgerald and his family moved abroad to Europe in May 1924 so he could continue writing his third novel which would eventually become The Great Gatsby. They sojourned on the French Riviera where a marital crisis developed involving a French naval aviator named Edouard Jozan.
F. Scott Fitzgerald died of a heart attack due to occlusive coronary arteriosclerosis at forty-four years old on the 21st of December 1940. He collapsed after experiencing a dizzy spell following the premiere of This Thing Called Love at the Pantages Theatre.