Timeline

By Maddie_013
  • Born in St. Paul, Minnesota

    Born in St. Paul, Minnesota

  • Family moves back to St. Paul after his father loses his job

    Fitzergerald attends St. Paul Academy and publishes his first school-newspaper piece
  • Attends Newman School in Hackensack, New Jersey

    Attends Newman School in Hackensack, New Jersey

    Meets father Sigourney Fay who encourages his writing

  • Enters Princeton University

    Becomes active in literary circles there.
  • Leaves Princeton to join the U.S. Army during WW1

    Leaves Princeton to join the U.S. Army during WW1

  • While stationed near Montgomery, Alabama, meets Zelda Sayre

    (Daughter of an Alabama Supreme Court judge) they are engaged though his finances are unstable

  • Moves to New York City

    Gets and advertising job and works on his novel, Zelda breaks off engagement for a time.

  • Marries Zelda Sayre

  • Second Novel, The Beautiful and Damned, is published

    Also short-story collection tales of the Jazz age appears
  • Fitzgerald and Zelda move to Europe and join American expatriate community.

    Fitzgerald and Zelda move to Europe and join American expatriate community.

  • Publishes the famed novel the Great Gatsby

    Publishes the famed novel the Great Gatsby

  • Zelda suffers her first mental breakdown first in 1930 second in 1932

    Fitzgerald’s drinking becomes problematic

  • Publishes Tender is the Night, his last completed major novel.

  • Moves to Hollywood to become a screenwriter in an effort to revive his career.

  • Begins his final novel, The Last Tycoon

  • Dies of a heart attack in Hollywood, California.

  • Posthumous publication of The Last Tycoon.