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Born in St. Paul, Minnesota -
After his father took a job in New York he moves his family there.
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After his father losses his job the family moves back to St. Paul
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Fitzgerald attends St. Paul academy and publishes his first work in the school paper.
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Fitzgerald attends Newman School and meets Father Sigourney Fay who encourages him to peruse writing.
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Fitzgerald attends Princeton University and writes for the school’s magazine, The Princeton Tiger. -
He flunks out of Princeton. He then joins the army where he is stationed in Montgomery, Alabama. There he meets Zelda Sayre.
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Fitzgerald moves back to New York where he gets a job paying $90 a month.
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After Zelda breaks off her engagement with Fitzgerald, he moves back to St. Paul to work on a novel he began in the army.
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He and Zelda get married in April. -
Fitzgerald publishes his book, This Side of Paradise. This novel brings him fame and fortune.
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Fitzgerald publishes a novel, The Beautiful and Damned, and a series of short stories titled, Tales of the Jazz Age.
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After traveling to France Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby. -
Fitzgerald began to drink heavily, and his wife suffers a mental breakdown. She spends the next year in European Clinics recovering.
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After moving back to the U.S. Zelda suffers from another mental breakdown from which she never recovered. She then later wrote a novel about her broken marriage with Fitzgerald titled, Save Me the Waltz.
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Fitzgerald releases and unsuccessful but moving novel, Tender Is the Night.
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Fitzgerald dies of a heart attack in Hollywood. -
A year after his death The Last Tycoon, a piece he was working on in Hollywood, is published.