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The Beginning
F. Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24 in St. Paul, Minnesota. Biography.com. -
Fun Fact
At 13 Scott Fitzgerald published his first story in a school newspaper at saint pall academy. Biography.com. -
School
Scott Fitzgerald entered Princeton University as an undergraduate student. When he attended Princeton he wrote musicals and publishes pieces in the Princeton Tiger Humor Magazine. Biography.com. -
Joining The Army
Because of his devotion to writing in college his academics suffered and had to leave after three years and he joined the army. He met his wife the same year in 1917, while he was in the army. He never went over seas but he was stationed down for Wild Camp Sheridan near where Zelda lived. She refused to commit herself until she was sure he had enough money to support her. -
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Best Seller
Fritz Gerald was discharged from the army in 1919 and moved to New York City. He published his first novel a year later called “This side of paradise”. It was an Immediate best seller and made him incredibly wealthy. A week after the novel was published he asked Zelda to marry him. It was the novel of the period 1920, the beginning of the jazz age. It’s said that the initial printing sold over fifty thousand copies. -
First born
In Winter 1921, his wife became pregnant as Fitzgerald worked on his second novel. On October 26, 1921, Zelda gave birth to their daughter and only child Frances Scott "Scottie" Fitzgerald. Biography.com. -
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Gatsby
In 1924, Fitzgerald moved to France hoping to spark his creativity. A year later, he published his greatest work “The Great Gatsby.” the word Gatsby has entered the American vocabulary. Biography.com. -
Still writing Stories
Over the course of his career he wrote over 178 stories and publish them in magazines such as “The Saturday Evening post” and this helped finically support him in order to write his novels. Subsequent novels such as his 1934 “Tender as the night” never matched the success as the Great Gatsby. Biography.com. -
Struggling With Depression
by most accounts F Scott Fitzgerald was an alcoholic. He struggled with depression and he watched as his friends like Ernest Hemingway got more and more successful while he kind of got less and less successful. 1937 Fitzgerald came to Hollywood to write street plays to make money as quickly as possible so he can then leave town again. And what he Really wanted to do was quite the opposite. Biography.com. -
Death
Gerald was halfway through his final novel the “last tycoon” subsequently known as the love of the last tycoon when he died of a heart attack on December 21, 1940. Biography.com.