F. Scott Fitzgerald By ConnorH11 Sep 24, 1896 Birth St. Paul Minnesota 1917 Joined the army 1918 Assigned to camp Sheridan in Montgomery Alabama 1919 Discharged from the army 1919 Quit his job 1919 Returned to St. Paul Minnesota 1919 His novel was accepted by Maxwell Perkins 1919 Officially commenced his career as a writer for mass circulation magazines Around the end of 1919 1919 The Saturday Evening Post would become his best story market 1920 The Fitzgeralds moved to NYC where Scott wrote his second novel “The Beautiful and Damned” 1920 A week after “This Side of Paradise” was published Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayer were married in New York 1921 Zelda became pregnant 1922 They move to Great Neck Long Island to be near broadway because he has wrote about it 1924 The Fitzgeralds went to France 1924 The Great Gatsby was written
