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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s life

  • Birthday

    Fitzgerald was born in Saint Paul Minnesota.
  • Joined the army

    Joined the army

  • Meeting Zelda

    He was stationed at a camp in Montgomery Alabama, where he met Zelda.
  • Discharged from the army

    He went to NYC to marry Zelda but she broke off the engagement for financial reasons. He quit his job and moved back to Saint Paul to write rewrite his novel.
  • End of 1919

    Commenced his career as a writer of stories for the mass circulation magazines, such as the Saturday evening post which will become his best story market.
  • Marriage

    Marriage

    Fitzgerald and Zelda got married in New York.
  • Zelda is pregnant

    Fitzgerald moves back to Saint Paul for Zelda to give birth to their only child, Francis Scott Fitzgerald.
  • Moving to great neck Long Island

    In order to be near broadway because Fitzgerald had written a play called the vegetable.
  • Going to France

    Going to France

    The year the great gatsby was written.
  • Zelda’s breakdown

    Zelda suffered her first breakdown and was treated at privates clinic in Switzerland. Fitzgerald payed for her psychiatric treatment.
  • Tender is the night

    Tender is the night

    Fitzgerald completed his 4th novel. The novel mirrored Fitzgerald and Zelda’s relationship
  • Crack up years

    Fitzgeralds alcoholism started and his inability to write commercial stories.
  • Moving to Hollywood

    He moved alone to work with someone as a screen writer until 1938
  • Fitzgerald dies

    He dies of a heart attack.
  • Zelda dies

    Zelda dies

    She died when Asheville’s highland hospital lit up in flames.