fitzgerald timeline

  • born

    born
    september 24th 1896
  • prenston

  • army

    army
    joined the army because he failed school
  • camp sheriton

  • discharged

    went to new york
  • st paul

    to rewrite his novel
  • accepted same year

    by the senator
  • wife

    wife
    him and his wife got married in new york
  • moved

    they moved to new york city so he could continue writing
  • pregnant

    she got prego one year after the marriage
  • moved

    moved
    moved to great neck long island for the birth of their kid
  • went to france

    went to france
    they went to france in the spring of 1924 to write the great gatsby
  • returned to ameirca

    they returned so he could once again focus on his writing because france had their problems
  • back to france

    his wife wanted to practice ballet when she got hurt
  • break down

    his wife suffered a breakdown where she got treated for a year