F. Scott Fitzgerald

By rachaelharney
  • Birth

    Birth

    Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St.Paul Minnesota to Molly and Edward Fitzgerald.

  • I want to join the army

    Fitzgerald was put on academic probation which motivated him to join the army
  • Zelda Sayer

    Zelda Sayer

    Assigned to Camp Sheridan near Montgomery, Alabama, Fitzgerald met his first wife Zelda Sayer.

  • First novel

    Fearful he would die in the trenches, Fitzgerald wrote his first novel “The Romantic Egoists”

  • The rewrite

    After quitting his job, Fitzgerald returned to St.Paul where he rewrote his novel, “This Side of Paradise”

  • Accepted

    “This Side Of Paradise” was accepted by editor Maxwell Perkins of Scribners

  • The Jazz Age

    Fitzgerald invents the term the Jazz Age
  • Marriage at last

    Marriage at last

    A week after “A Side of Paradise” was published, Zelda and Fitzgerald married in New York
  • The birth of his first born

    The birth of his first born

    Frances Scott Fitzgerald

  • The Vegetable

    Fitzgerald attempts to make it on broadway by writing a play “The Vegetable” that flops when it opens in Atlantic CIty

  • The Great Gatsby

    The Fitzgeralds went to France where “The Great Gatsby” was written which embodies the American Dream

  • Off to france

    The Fitzgeralds head to France to escape prohibition
  • The publication of The Great Gatsby

    The publication of The Great Gatsby

    The Great Gatsby is published and Fitzgerald is met with disappointing sales and tepid reviews.

  • Breakdown

    Zelda suffered her first breakdown
  • Death

    Death

    Fitzgerald died due to a heart attack