F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • Born

    Born

    Fitzgerald is born in St. Paul, Minnesota
  • University

    Scott enters Princeton University
  • Zelda

    Zelda

    Scott meets Zelda at a county club dance in Montgomery.
  • The Romantic Egoists

    The Romantic Egoists

    He writes his first novel, writes his first novel, The Romantic Egoists. Which is about his education and personal awakening.
  • Scott proposes to Zelda

    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.
  • This Side of Paradise

    This Side of Paradise

    Scott’s first novel, This Side of Paradise, is published.
  • Flappers and Philosophers

    Flappers and Philosophers

    Scott publishes his first bundle of short stories (Flappers and Philosophers).
  • Cruise of The Rolling Junk

    Cruise of The Rolling Junk

    Cruise of The Rolling Junk is published in Motor Magazine.
  • They move to Riviera

    The Fitzgeralds and their daughter, Francis (who was born in 1921) leave for France. The family later moves to the Riviera.
  • The Great Gatsby

    While in France, Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby. But he does not publish his next novel for a long time.
  • Period: to

    Scott's Drinking Issues

    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"
  • Tender Is the Night

    Fitzgerald’s last completed novel "Tender Is the Night" is published.
  • Hospitalized Zelda

    Zelda enters Highland Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina.
  • New Love

    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.
  • Death

    Scott dies of a heart attack.

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