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Fitzgerald is born in St. Paul, Minnesota -
Scott enters Princeton University
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Scott meets Zelda at a county club dance in Montgomery. -
He writes his first novel, writes his first novel, The Romantic Egoists. Which is about his education and personal awakening. -
The Great War ends and Scott gets discharged from the army. He then finds a job in New York City at an advertising agency. He later proposes to Zelda but she says no. When This Side of Paradise is accepted, Zelda accepts Scott’s proposal.
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Scott’s first novel, This Side of Paradise, is published. -
Scott publishes his first bundle of short stories (Flappers and Philosophers). -
Cruise of The Rolling Junk is published in Motor Magazine. -
The Fitzgeralds and their daughter, Francis (who was born in 1921) leave for France. The family later moves to the Riviera.
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While in France, Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby. But he does not publish his next novel for a long time.
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Fitzgerald’s drinking increases more and more. Zelda suffers a mental breakdown in 1930. They later move back to the U.S. She has a second breakdown in 1932. But she never fully recovers from this one. She publishes her first and only novel, "Save Me the Waltz"
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Fitzgerald’s last completed novel "Tender Is the Night" is published.
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Zelda enters Highland Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina.
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Scott moves to Hollywood and becomes a scriptwriter. There he meets and falls in love with Sheilah Graham who is a famous Hollywood gossip columnist.
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Scott dies of a heart attack.
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