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F. Scott Fitzgerald was born.
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Princeton class of 1917
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Scott joined the army due to being put on academic probation.
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Fitzgerald was assigned Camp Sheridan in Alabama
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Fitzgerald was discharged from the Army
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Quit his job, returned to St. Paul to rewrite his novel as "This Side of Paradise."
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His novel was accepted by editor Maxwell Perkins of Skribners
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After a week of "This Side of Paradise" was published, he got married and moved to New York.
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Wrote another novel after moving, titled "The Beautiful and the Damned."
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Their only child was born, named Francis Scott Fitzgerald
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The Fitzgeralds moved to Great Neck Long Island in order to be near broadway because of a play he had written, called "The Vegetable."
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The Fitzgeralds went to France in the spring, where "The Great Gatbsy" was written.
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Spent the winter in rome revising "The Great Gatbsy".
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The period the Fitzgeralds stayed in France.
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Mrs.Fitzgerald was hospitalized due to health issues.
