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Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald is born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S. -
During this time, his parents send him to two different catholic schools: first to the Holy Angels Covenant (1903-1904), then to the Nardin Academy (1905-1908).
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Shortly after Scott's father gets fired from the company he was working at, they return to Minnesota, where Scott attends the St. Paul Academy. -
He publishes his first work, The Mystery of the Raymond mortgage, in his school's newspaper.
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He starts attending the Newman School, a Catholic prep school in Hackensack, New Jersey. At the Newman School, Father Sigourney Fray recognises Scott's talent and encourages him to become a writer.
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After graduating from Newman, he enrolls at Princeton University, where he meets John Biggs Jr, who would later become a long time friend of his. He writes several stories and poems for the Princeton Triangle Club, the university's theatre troupe, and the Princeton Tiger, the university's magazine.
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At the age of 18, Scott returns home to Saint Paul during Christmas break, where he meets 16-year old Ginevra King. They fall in love and start a relationship that spans several years. -
Scott and Ginevra were both in love; however, Ginevra's family, an upper class one, didn't approve of him because of his lower status. Ginevra was then forced to leave Scott. Following this event, a suicidal Scott enlists in the United States Army hoping to die in combat. -
During his time in the army, Scott meets Zelda Sayre at a country club. A romance blossoms between the two, but it gets interrupted when Scott gets transfered to another location. -
The Allied Powers sign an armistice with Germany, and thus the war is over. -
Scott publishes This Side of Paradise, an autographical novel that accounts the events he lived throughout his Princeton years, and his romances with Ginevra and Zelda. -
(just pretend the people in the picture are them) -
Zelda gets pregnant and gives birth to Frances, the couple's only daughter. Meanwhile, Scott works on his second novel, The Beautiful and Damned, which he would then publish early next year. -
In October 1922, the family moves to Great Neck, Long Island, to be near Broadway. -
The premier is an unmitigated disaster; he then resorts to writing short stories to keep up financially, stories which he would then later describe as "worthless". -
Many of the experiences Scott lived there would later inspire his magnum opus, The Great Gatsby. -
Despite it being favoured by the critics, the novel is a commercial failure compared to his previous works. -
Zelda engages in several self-destructive acts and the couple goes through a marital crisis as her behavior grows increasingly erratic and violent. In April 1932, she gets diagnosed with schizophrenia.
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The novel's depressing tone reflects Scott's own mental health decline. -
The financial struggles of The Great Depression along with his wife's medical bills puts Scott in debt. To cope with his issues he resorts to drinking, and his health deteriorates. -
He becomes a screenwriter at MGM to deal with his financial issues. -
The date didn't go well because of his alcoholism. Ginevra returned home dissapointed. Soon after, he began a relationship with gossip columnist Sheilah Graham. -
They see each other for the last time on a trip to Cuba, where he also gets hospitalized for excessive drinking. -
Even though he achieved sobriety for over a year, he has a heart attack due to occlusive coronary arteriosclerosis.