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Fitzgerald was born in Saint Paul Minnesota on September 24th, 1896. -
When Fitzgerald was 13 years old, he published his first story in his school newspaper st the Saint Paul Academy. -
When Fitzgerald attended Princeton, he wrote musicals and published pieces in the Princeton tiger humor magazine. -
Fitzgerald met his wife in 1917 while he was in the army stationed at camp Sheridan nearby where she lived -
Fitzgerald was discharged from the army and he moved to New York City, he published his first novel a year later
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A week after “This Side of Paradise” was published, he asked Zelda to marry him and they ended up having a child.
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“This Side of Paradise” was considered the novel of the period
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Fitzgerald became one of the 20th century’s greatest writers
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This Side of Paradise was an immediate best seller and it made him incredibly wealthy.
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In the first year Fitzgerald sold over 50,000 copies of “This Side of Paradise”.
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In 1924 Fitzgerald moved to France to try to spark his creativity, a year later, he published the great gatsby. -
In 1937, Fitzgerald came to Hollywood to make screen plays to make money as quickly as he could so that way he could leave town again and go back to writing his novels.
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Throughout Fitzgeralds career, he wrote 178 stories and published them in magazines such as the Saturday evening post in Esquire.
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All of the stories published by Fitzgerald helped financially support him to be able to continue to write his novels
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On December 21st, 1940, Fitzgerald passed away due to a heart attack.