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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.
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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.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre meet at a country club dance in Montgomery, Alabama.
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World War I ends before Second Lieutenant Fitzgerald ever leaves the U.S.
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Fitzgerald is discharged from the Army in February. Hoping to marry Zelda, he takes an advertising job in New York.
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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.
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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.
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The Fitzgeralds depart for their first trip to Europe. They spend three months in England, France and Italy before returning to the U.S.
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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.
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The Great Gatsby is published. The Fitzgeralds, who have been traveling about Europe, settle in Paris a few weeks later.
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Zelda suffers her first nervous breakdown and spends much of the next year hospitalized in various clinics in Switzerland.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald dies of a heart attack at Sheilah Graham's Hollywood, California apartment.
