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F. Scott Fitzgerald is born in St. Paul, Minnesota
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Fitzgerald enrolls at the Newman School, a Catholic prep school in New Jersey. -
He enters Princeton University, where he writes for the Princeton Triangle Club and contributes to literary magazines.
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Fitzgerald drops out of Princeton and joins the U.S. Army as World War I rages.
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He meets Zelda Sayre in Montgomery, Alabama, while stationed there. -
After being discharged from the military, Fitzgerald moves to New York and starts revising a novel he had begun at Princeton.
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His first novel, This Side of Paradise, is published, launching his career and leading to his marriage to Zelda. -
Fitzgerald publishes The Beautiful and Damned, which delves into the moral decay of a young couple in high society.
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Fitzgerald and Zelda move to France, where he begins writing The Great Gatsby.
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The Great Gatsby is published, initially receiving modest reviews, though it later becomes his most famous work. -
Zelda has her first mental breakdown, and she is eventually diagnosed with schizophrenia.
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Fitzgerald publishes Tender is the Night, a novel about a psychiatrist and his wife, which reflects the struggles in his own life.
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Fitzgerald moves to Hollywood to work as a screenwriter, where he becomes involved with columnist Sheilah Graham.
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Fitzgerald dies of a heart attack at age 44, while working on his unfinished novel The Last Tycoon.