F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Jazz Age

  • F. Scott Fitzgerald is born.

  • World War I begins.

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    World War I

  • Fitzgerald leaves Princeton and joins U.S. Army.

  • World War I ends.

  • Eighteenth Amendment is passed, prohibiting sale and manufacturing of alcohol.

  • Period: to

    Prohibition

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    Jazz Age

  • Nineteenth Amendment is passed, granting women the right to vote.

  • This Side of Paradise is published, Fitzgerald's first novel.

  • Flappers and Philosophers is published.

  • The Beautiful and Damned is published.

  • Tales of the Jazz Age is published.

  • The Great Gatsby is published.

  • All the Sad Young Men

  • The U.S. stock market crashes.

  • Period: to

    The Great Depression

  • Tender is the Night is published.

  • Taps at Reveille

  • "Trouble" for the Saturday Evening Post is published.

  • The Crack-Up is published.

  • Fitzgerald dies at age 44.

  • The Last Tycoon is published posthumously.

  • Babylon Revisited and Other Stories published posthumously.