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Birth
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Fitzgerald's First Publication
At the age of 14, F. Scott Fitzgerald appears in print for the first time, with "The Mystery of the Raymond Mortgage" in the student publication St. Paul Academy Now and Then. -
Fitzgerald's First Publication
At the age of 14, F. Scott Fitzgerald appears in print for the first time, with "The Mystery of the Raymond Mortgage" in the student publication St. Paul Academy Now and Then. -
On academic probation and close to flunking out of Princeton, Fitzgerald takes a commission as an infantry second lieutenant in the U.S. Army and leaves school to report for duty at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He never graduates from Princeton. Soon after reporting for military duty, he begins a novel entitled The Romantic Egoist.
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This Side of Paradise, Fitzgerald's first novel, is published. A week later, he and Zelda marry in St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York.
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The Fitzgeralds depart for their first trip to Europe. They spend three months in England, France and Italy before returning to the U.S.
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The Fitzgerald's first and only child is born, a daughter named Frances Scott "Scottie" Fitzgerald. The next month the family moves to St. Paul and lives there until June.
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The Beautiful and Damned is published.
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The Great Gatsby is published. The Fitzgerald's, who have been traveling about Europe, settle in Paris a few weeks later.
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The U.S. stock market crashes, triggering the Great Depression. The Jazz Age is officially over.
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Zelda suffers her first nervous breakdown and spends much of the next year hospitalized in various clinics in Switzerland. In November Fitzgerald publishes the short story "One Trip Abroad," about an American couple who fall apart in Europe.
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The Saturday Evening Post publishes the stories "Babylon Revisited" and "Emotional Bankruptcy," both of which dwell on characters reflecting on the aftermath of the Crash. In September, the Fitzgeralds return to the U.S.
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Fitzgerald moves to Hollywood after signing a six-month contract from Metro Goldwyn Mayer, hoping that he'll work his way out of debt with screenplays. Within days of his arrival he meets a movie columnist named Sheilah Graham. They begin an affair that lasts until his death. Fitzgerald (who turns out to be not so great at screenwriting) starts work on his only credited screenplay, Three Comrades.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald dies of a heart attack at Sheilah Graham's Hollywood, California apartment. He is buried in Rockville, Maryland, where his father was born.
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The Last Tycoon is published posthumously.
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Zelda Fitzgerald dies in a fire at Highland Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina.
