Short answers, pulled from the story.
F. Scott Fitzgerald was born on the 24th of September 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He was named after a distant cousin who wrote the lyrics to the national anthem and was born into a middle-class Catholic family.
The first great love of F. Scott Fitzgerald was 16-year-old Ginevra King, a Chicago debutante he met during Christmas break of 1914. Their relationship ended when Ginevra was expelled from her school for flirting with other men, and her father told Fitzgerald that poor boys should not think of marrying rich girls.
F. Scott Fitzgerald died on the 20th of December 1940 at 44 years old from a heart attack due to occlusive coronary arteriosclerosis. He collapsed on the floor of his apartment after experiencing a dizzy spell at the premiere of This Thing Called Love.
The Great Gatsby sold fewer than 23,000 copies in its first year after its publication in 1925. Despite the tepid sales and lack of immediate popularity, the novel eventually became known as the Great American Novel.
F. Scott Fitzgerald met Zelda Sayre in June 1918 while stationed at Camp Sheridan near Montgomery, Alabama. They married in 1920 after he published the commercially successful novel This Side of Paradise.
F. Scott Fitzgerald is buried in Rockville Cemetery, where he was initially laid to rest with a simple Protestant service in 1940. In 1975, his daughter Scottie successfully petitioned to have his remains moved to the family plot in the Catholic Saint Mary's Cemetery.