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Born in 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, to an upper-middle-class family,
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spent the first decade of his childhood primarily in Buffalo, New York. january 1901 through september
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After an unsuccessful career as a salesman in New York state, Edward Fitzgerald moves his family back to St. Paul. In September Scott enrolls at St. Paul Academy.
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At the age of 14, F. Scott Fitzgerald appears in print for the first time, with "The Mystery of the Raymond Mortgage" in the student publication St. Paul Academy Now and Then
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In 1911, when Fitzgerald was 15 years old, his parents sent him to the Newman School, a prestigious Catholic prep school in Hackensack, New Jersey. There he met Father Sigourney Fay, who noticed his incipient talent with the written word and encouraged him to pursue his literary ambitions
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He was placed on academic probation, and in 1917 he dropped out of school to join the U.S. Army. Afraid that he might die in World War I with his literary dreams unfulfilled, in the weeks before reporting to duty Fitzgerald hastily wrote a novel called The Romantic Egotist
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Fitzgerald met and fell in love with Zelda Sayre, the daughter of an Alabama Supreme Court justice and the "golden girl," in Fitzgerald's terms, of Montgomery youth society.
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The war ended in 1918, before Fitzgerald was ever deployed, and upon his discharge he moved to New York City hoping to launch a career in advertising lucrative enough to convince Zelda to marry him.
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Their daughter (only child), Frances Scott "Scottie" Fitzgerald, was born on October 26, 1921
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The Beautiful and Damned is published
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The Fitzgeralds set sail for France. They spend most of the next seven years in Europe, predominantly in Paris.
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The Great Gatsby is published. The Fitzgeralds, who have been traveling about Europe, settle in Paris a few weeks later
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The U.S. stock market crashes, triggering the Great Depression. The Jazz Age is officially over
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Fitzgerald began working on his fourth novel during the late 1920s but was sidetracked by financial difficulties that necessitated his writing commercial short stories, and by the schizophrenia that struck Zelda in 1930.
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The Saturday Evening Post publishes the stories "Babylon Revisited" and "Emotional Bankruptcy," both of which dwell on characters reflecting on the aftermath of the Crash. In September, the Fitzgeralds return to the U.S.
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In 1932, she was hospitalized in Baltimore, Maryland. Fitzgerald rented the "La Paix" estate in the suburb of Towson, Maryland to work on his latest book, the story of the rise and fall of Dick Diver
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His book was finally published in 1934 as Tender Is the Night
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"Trouble," Fitzgerald's last story for The Saturday Evening Post, is published.
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In 1937, Fitzgerald moved to Hollywood, and he made his highest annual income thus far of $29,757.87
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The Last Tycoon is published posthumously
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F. Scott Fitzgerald dies of a heart attack at Sheilah Graham's Hollywood, California apartment. He is buried in Rockville, Maryland, where his father was born.
