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Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on September 4th, 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota on the second floor of 481 laurel avenue. His parents were Edward and molly Fitzgerald.
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He failed as a student and was put on academic probation which motivates him to join the army where he made his first ever poem
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He went to camp share in Montgomery, Alabama he met Zelda Sayer the youngest of all the Supreme Court judge kids
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He went to New York to seek his fortune in order to marry Zelda but she broke off the engagement after not willing to live off poor salary
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He quit his job and returned to St. Paul to write his novel this side of paradise it follows the life of Amery Blaine it was accepted by editor Mackful Perkins
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Becomes a writer for the Saturday evening post which became his best story market
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After his novels go big Zelda accepts him back and they get married
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The Fitzgeralds move cities to New York where he writes another novel the beautiful and damned
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Zelda becomes pregnant a year after they become married which motivated them to move back to St. Paul
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They move to great neck Long Island to live next to broadway where he tries to write a play but it fails so he makes a bunch of short stories
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The Fitzgeralds rent the Villa Marie in Saint-Raphaël on the French Riviera. Scott writes The Great Gatsby.
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The Great Depression brings smaller fees for Scott’s short stories, the family's only reliable income. Zelda and Scott’s love survives these calamities.
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The Fitzgeralds return to Montgomery. Scott spends months in Hollywood working on a script for Red-Headed Woman. While he’s gone, Zelda begins a novel and writes several short stories.
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Scott dies suddenly of a heart attack, age 44. Still the bench mark for talent and elegant prose, Scott’s literary legacy includes 5 novels and 170 short stories which are enjoyed the world over. The Last Tycoon, Scott’s unfinished novel about Hollywood, is published posthumously, in 1941.
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Zelda dies in Asheville. Her vibrant paintings are among the few tangible mementos of Scott & Zelda’s lives.
