F. Scott Fitzgerald

By Karitza

  • Brithdate

    Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born. He was born in st.Paul Minnesota on the second floor in 81 Laurel Avenue.
  • He joins the army

    He joins the army

    Due to his failure as a student he was put on academic probation which led him to join the army.

  • He met Zelda Sayer

    He was assigned to Camp Sheridan near Montgomery, Alabama where he met Zelda Sayer
  • Discharged form army and moved to New York

    Discharged form army and moved to New York

    He went to New York to seek his fortune in order to marry Zelda but she broke off their engagement after being unwilling to live off his small salary.
  • Quit his job and returned to st.paul

    Quit his job and returned to st.paul

    He quit his job and returned to st. pull to rewrite his novel as "This Side of Paradise"

  • His novel get accepted

    His novel gets accepted by editor Maxwell Perkins.

  • Starts his career as a writer

    By the end of the year Fitzgerald officially commenced his career as a writer of stories for the mass circulation magazines.

  • Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayer get married

    They get married in New York and move to New York City

  • Zelda Fitzgerald gets pregnant

    Motivated by this, the Fitzgeralds move back to st.paul and their only child Francis Scott is born.

  • The Fitzgeralds move to Great Neck Long Island

    They move here in order to be near broadway because Fitzgerald had written a play called "The Vegetable". The play failed of its tryout and Fitzgerald wrote his way out of debt with short stories.

  • The Fitzgeralds went to France

    They went to France where the Great Gatsby was written. Geralds achievement received critical praise but the sales of the novel were disappointing.

  • The Fitzgeralds return to America

    In attempt to escape the distractions of France and to resume work on his novels the Fitzgeralds returned to America where they rented out a mansion in Delaware.
  • The family returns to Paris

    The family returns to Paris

    During their time in Delaware Zelda began ballet training with the hopes of becoming professional dancer. The family returned to Paris in the spring of 1929 where her intense ballet training a damaged her health.

  • Fitzgerald suffered her first breakdown

    Fitzgerald suffered her first breakdown and was treated at Praguins clinic in Switzerland until September 1931. During this time Fitzgeralds work on his novel was paused once more to write shorts stories to pay for her psychiatric treatment

  • The Fitzgeralds return to America once more

    The Fitzgeralds returned to America where Zelda relapse a year later and entered John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore
  • Fitzgerald completes his fourth novel "Tender is the Night"

    Fitzgerald completes his fourth novel "Tender is the Night"

    The novel examines a deterioration of the marriage between an American psychiatrist and a wealthy mental patient.