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F Scott Fitzgerald is born in St. Paul Minnesota
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F. Scott Fitzgerald is in print for the first time with “the Mystery of the Raymond Mortgage”
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Fitzgerald starts at Princeton University. He meets friends Edmund Wilson and John Bishop.
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close to failing out of Princeton, Fitzgerald enters as an infantry second lieutenant in the U.S. Army and leaves school. He never graduates from Princeton. Soon after reporting for military duty, he starts a novel called “The Romantic Egoist.”
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This Side of Paradise, Fitzgerald's first novel, is published. A week later, he and Zelda marry in New York.
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The Fitzgeralds depart for their first trip to Europe. They spend three months in England, France and Italy before going home to the U.S.
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Their only child Scottie is born
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“The Beautiful Damned” is published
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The Fitzgeralds set sail for France. They spend most of the next seven years in Europe, mostly Paris.
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The Great Gatsby is published. The Fitzgeralds, who have been traveling in Europe, settle in Paris.
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Zelda suffers her first nervous breakdown and spends much of the next year hospitalized in various clinics in Switzerland. In November Fitzgerald publishes the short story "One Trip Abroad," about an American couple who fall apart in Europe.
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Tender is the Night is published. Zelda suffers her third mental breakdown
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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.
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Zelda Fitzgerald dies in a fire at Highland Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina.
