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F. Scott Fitzgerald Born
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald is born in St. Paul, Minnesota, the third of five children born to furniture manufacturer Edward Fitzgerald and Mary Mollie, the daughter of an Irish immigrant. Scott and his sister Annabel are the only two Fitzgerald children to survive infancy. -
Fitzgerald Family Moves to Minnesota
After failure in career as a sales man in NYC, Edward Fitzgerald moves his family to St. Paul. In September Scott then enrolled in Pt. Paul Academy -
First Accomplishment
At the age of 14, F. Scott Fitzgerald appears in print for the first time, with "The Mystery of the Raymond Mortgage" in the student publication St. Paul Academy Now and Then. -
Enters Princeton
Fitzgerald enters Princeton University with the Class of 1917. He also meets men who will remain very good friends and influences, including the writers Edmund Wilson and John Peale Bishop. -
Joins club
In his sophomore year Fitzgerald amps up his involvement in Princeton's literary scene, with contributions to the Princeton Tiger and the Triangle Club. -
Finds love
Fitzgerald meets Ginevra King, his first serious love interest and a major influence on several female characters in his later fiction. They date but soon part ways. They didn’t work out. -
US Army Service
On tutorial probation and shut to flunking out of Princeton, Fitzgerald takes a fee as an infantry 2nd lieutenant in the U.S. Army and leaves faculty to report for duty at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He by no means graduates from Princeton. Soon after reporting for navy duty, he starts a novel entitled The Romantic Egoist. -
Flappers and Philosophers
Following the publication of his first short story collection Flappers and Philosophers, the Fitzgeralds move into an apartment on West 59th Street in New York City. -
Marriage to Zelda Sayre
F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre meet at a country club dance in Montgomery, Alabama. A month later the publisher Scribners rejects The Romantic Egoist but, sensing promise in the young writer, encourages Fitzgerald to revise it and try again. This Side of Paradise, Fitzgerald's first novel, is published. A week later, he and Zelda marry in St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York. -
Travel to Europe
The Fitzgeralds depart for their first trip to Europe. They spend three months in England, France and Italy before returning to the U.S. -
Fitzgeralds at Great Neck
The Fitzgeralds lease a residence in Great Neck, Long Island. They stay there till April 1924. During their time in Long Island, F. Scott Fitzgerald produces a few brief memories for magazines and one unsuccessful play. The couple's interactions with Long Island society supply the placing and temper for the novel germinating in Fitzgerald's head. -
Published
The Beautiful and Damned is published. -
Paris
The Fitzgeralds set sail for France. They spend most of the next seven years in Europe, mostly in Paris -
Published
The great gatsby is published The Fitzgeralds, who have been traveling about Europe, settle in Paris a few weeks later. -
Holly wood
Fitzgerald strikes to Hollywood after signing a six-month contract from Metro Goldwyn Mayer, hoping that he'll work his way out of debt with screenplays. Within days of his arrival he meets a film columnist named Sheilah Graham. They start an affair that lasts till his death. Fitzgerald (who turns out to be now not so superb at screenwriting) starts offevolved work on his solely credited screenplay, Three Comrades. -
Death
Died in Hollywood LA had a heart attack age 44 -
The last tycoon
The last tycoon is publish posthumously -
Death of Zelda Fitzgerald
Zelda Fitzgerald dies in a fire at Highland Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina.
