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F. Scott was born
Francis Scott key Fitzgerald is born in Saint Paul Minnesota the third of five children born to furniture man fractured Edward Fitzgerald and Mary. -
Fitzgerald Family Moves to Minnesota
After an unsuccessful career as a salesman in New York state, Edward Fitzgerald moves his family back to St. Paul. In September Scott enrolls at St. Paul Academy. -
Fitzgerald at Princeton
enters Princeton University with the Class of 1917. He soon meets men who will remain lifelong friends and influences, including the writers Edmund Wilson and John Peale Bishop. -
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US Army Service
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. -
This Side of Paradise
Fitzgerald is discharged from the Army in February. In June Zelda breaks the engagement due to Fitzgerald's lack of fame and wealth. Fitzgerald quits advertising, moves in with his parents in St. Paul and goes to work rewriting The Romantic Egoist. -
Marriage to Zelda Sayre
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. -
Travel to Europe
They spend three months in England, France and Italy before returning to the U.S. -
Birth of Daughter Scottie Fitzgerald
The Fitzgeralds' 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. -
The Beatiful and Damned
The book is published -
The Great Crash
The Great Depression is here stock markets crash -
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby is published. The Fitzgeralds, who have been traveling about Europe, settle in Paris a few weeks later. -
Zelda Fitzgerald's Nervous Breakdown
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. -
He goes back to america
both of which dwell on characters reflecting on the aftermath of the Crash. In September, the Fitzgeralds return to the U.S. -
Last Story for Saturday Evening Post
Fitzgerald's last story for The Saturday Evening Post, is published. -
Failed Screenwriting Career
Fitzgerald spends this year bouncing between freelance gigs in Hollywood and bouts with his alcoholism. In January he works briefly on Gone With the Wind. In February he gets a job on a production called Winter Carnival but is fired for drunkenness and is hospitalized in New York He begins work on his final novel The Last Tycoon in the summer, but is unable to sell the serial rights to a magazine. -
Death of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s scott
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. -
The last tycoon
It’s published posthumously
