F. S. Fitzgerald

By juanyalfonso

  • Birth

    Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in U.S.Saint Paul, Minnesota.

  • Drop out of college

    He attended Princeton University but dropped out to join the United States Army during World War I.

  • First novel

    For his first novel, Fitzgerald used as his literary templates H. G. Wells' 1909 work Tono-Bungay and Sir Compton Mackenzie's 1913 novel Sinister Street, which chronicled a young college student's coming-of-age at Oxford University.
  • Period: to

    Achievements achieved during his successful period

    He achieved temporary popular success and fortune

  • Second novel

    The Beautiful and Damned

  • Third novel

    The Great Gatsby

  • Alcoholism

    After a long struggle with alcoholism, he attained sobriety only to die of a heart attack

  • Death

  • New edition

    A new edition was published as The Love of the Last Tycoon, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli.