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F. Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 14th, 1896, in St. Paul, Minnesota
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Due to his failure as a student, he was put on academic probation, which motivated him to join the army in 1917. -
Fitzgerald was discharged from the army in 1919, he then went to New York City where planned on Marrying Zelda. But she broke up with him because of his poor salary.
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Near the end of 1919 Fitzgerald officially committed his career as a writer of stories
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A week after "This Side of Paradise" was published, him and Zelda got married in New York -
A year after their marriage, they had their one and only daughter named Francis Scott Fitzgerald.
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In the Fall of 1922, Fitzgerald and his family had moved to Great neck, Long Island.
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The Fitzgeralds went to France in the Spring of 1924, where "The Great Gatsby" was written. -
After going back to America a few years go, him and his family had come back to Paris in 1929, where Zelda's intense ballet training damaged her health.
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In April of 1930, Zelda had suffered her first breakdown and had to be treated for a year until September of 1931.
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Fitzgerald completed his fourth novel "Tender is in The Night" in 1934, which closely mirrors the relationship between him and Zelda -
From 1936 to 1937, Fitzgerald was unable to write commercial stories due to his alcoholism.
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In the summer of 1937, he moved alone to Hollywood to work with MGM as a screen writer until 1938.
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His wife Zelda had dies from a heart attack on December 21st, 1940.
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A literary critic, Edmund Wilson, renewed the interest of "The Great Gatsby" within the readers in 1951.