F. Scott Fitzgerald

By tariqrasul

  • Fitzgerald Born

    Fitzgerald Born

  • Fitzgerald Family Moves to Minnesota

  • Fitzgerald's First Publication

  • Fitzgerald at Princeton

    Fitzgerald at Princeton

  • Fitzgerald Writes for Princeton Tiger

    Fitzgerald Writes for Princeton Tiger

  • Fitzgerald Falls in 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.

  • US Army Service

    On academic probation and close to flunking out of Princeton, Fitzgerald takes a commission as an infantry second lieutenant in the U.S. Army and leaves school to report for duty at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

  • Fitzgerald Meets Zelda Sayre

    Fitzgerald Meets Zelda Sayre
    F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre meet at a country club dance in Montgomery, Alabama.

  • Armistice Day

    Armistice Day
    World War I ends before Second Lieutenant Fitzgerald ever leaves the U.S.

  • This Side of Paradise

    Fitzgerald is discharged from the Army in February. Hoping to marry Zelda, he takes an advertising job in New York.

  • 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

    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.

  • Birth of Daughter Scottie Fitzgerald

    The Fitzgeralds' first and only child is born, a daughter named Frances Scott "Scottie" Fitzgerald. The next month the family moves to St. Paul and lives there until June.

  • The Great Gatsby

    The Great Gatsby is published. The Fitzgeralds, who have been traveling about Europe, settle in Paris a few weeks later.

  • Zelda Fitzgerald's Nervous Breakdown

    Zelda suffers her first nervous breakdown and spends much of the next year hospitalized in various clinics in Switzerland.

  • Death of F. Scott Fitzgerald

    F. Scott Fitzgerald dies of a heart attack at Sheilah Graham's Hollywood, California apartment.