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Born to Mollie McQuillan Fitzgerald and Edward Fitzgerald in Saint Paul, Minnesota on September 24th, 1896
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When he was 13, he published a story in his school’s newspaper of St. Paul Academy.
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He wrote musicals and also published pieces of stories in the Princeton Tiger humor magazine.
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Because he was so devoted to writing, his academics suffered and he had to drop out after 3 years and joined the army.
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While stationed at Sheridan, Fitzgerald went to a weekend country club dance and met Zelda
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He was discharged from the army and moved to New York City.
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Fitzgerald's debut novel became an instant success. This Side of Paradise sold approximately 40,000 copies in the first year. Within months of its publication, his debut novel became a cultural sensation in the United States, and F. Scott Fitzgerald became a household name. -
Scott Fitzgerald married Zelda Sayre after publishing his first book and getting enough money to support them -
Frances Scott (Scottie) Fitzgerald Was born in October 1921 -
Moved to France, hoping to spark his creativity.
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Scott Fitzgerald was a 20th-century American short-story writer and novelist. Although he completed four novels and more than 150 short stories in his lifetime, he is perhaps best remembered for his third novel, The Great Gatsby (1925). The Great Gatsby is today widely considered “the great American novel.“ -
In the summer of 1937, broke, in debt and trying desperately to dry out, F. Scott Fitzgerald moved to Hollywood, where he joined the legions of jerks with Underwoods, to paraphrase the studio chief Jack Warner's famous put-down of screenwriters. Fitzgerald was part of what amounted to a literary exodus. -
He began his Hollywood novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon, in 1939 and had written more than half of a working draft when he died of a heart attack on December 21, 1940. F. Scott Fitzgerald died believing himself a failure.