Zeldascott

Fitzgerald & Zelda in the 1920s

  • Fitzgerald and Zelda meet at a country club dance in Montgomery

  • Scribners declines “The Romantic Egotist"

  • Fitzgerald becomes aide-de-camp to General J. A. Ryan

    Camp Sheridan
  • Fitgerald moves to New York and gets engaged to Zelda

    Works for the Barron Collier advertising agency; lives in room at 200 Claremont Avenue
  • Zelda breaks off engagement

  • Fitzgerald quits his job and moves back home

  • Scribner's accepts This Side of Paradise

  • Fitzgerald gets a job at The Saturday Evening Post

  • Zelda and Fitzgerald resume their engagement

  • This Side of Paradise is published

    This Side of Paradise is published
  • Fitzgerald and Zelda get married in New York

  • Fitzgerald begin work on The Beautiful and Damned

  • Fitzgeralds move to New York City

  • The Fitzgeralds visit Europe

  • Frances Scott Fitzgerald is born

     Frances Scott Fitzgerald is born
  • The Beautiful and Damned is published

  • Fitzgeralds move to Long Island

  • The Fitzgerald take a second trip to Europe

  • Zelda begins courting Edouard Jozan

  • Period: to

    Fitzgerald finishes and revises The Great Gatsby

  • Fitzgerald revises The Great Gatsby

  • The Great Gatsby is published

  • Fitzgerald meets Earnest Hemingway

  • Broadway produces a play of The Great Gatsby

    Broadway produces a play of The Great Gatsby
  • The Fitzgeralds return to America

  • Zelda begins ballet lessons

  • The Fitzgeralds visit Europe a third time

  • Fitzgeralds return to America

  • Period: to

    Zelda is put in various sanatariums

  • Zelda creates artwork

    Zelda creates artwork
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald dies