F.Scott Fitzgerald

  • Born date

    Born date
    He was born the 24 of september of 1896 at Saint Paul, Minnesota
  • University

    He was dropped out from Princeton university in 1917 to join USA army for WW1
  • Married

    Married
    Married with Zelda Sayre while he was in Alabama
  • Wrote his first novel

    Wrote his first novel
    It is called "This side of paradise".The novel became a cultural sensation and cemented his reputation as one of the eminent writers of the decade.
  • Second novel

    Second novel
    It is called "The beautiful and damned".The novel, propelled him further into the cultural elite
  • The Great Gatsby

    The Great Gatsby
    received generally favorable reviews but was a commercial failure, selling fewer than 23,000 copies in its first year.The Great Gatsby is now hailed by some literary critics as the "Great American Novel"
  • Final novel

    Final novel
    Following the deterioration of his wife's mental health and her placement in a mental institute for schizophrenia, Fitzgerald completed his final novel, "Tender Is the Night".
  • Hollywood

    Fitzgerald moved to Hollywood where he embarked upon an unsuccessful career as a screenwriter.
  • Period: to

    During Holywood

    While living in Hollywood, he cohabited with columnist Sheilah Graham, his final companion before his death
  • Death

    Death
    After a long struggle with alcoholism, he attained sobriety only to die of a heart attack in 1940, at 44. His friend Edmund Wilson edited and published an unfinished fifth novel, "The Last Tycoon", after Fitzgerald's death.