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The birth of Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
Born in Saint Paul Minnesota -
At age 12.
Dad got a job at Proctor and Gamble in syracuse and Buffalo New York. His family moved there, and i1908 father got fired, and moved back to Minnesota in Saint Paul. -
When he was 12 about to be 13...
Fitzgerald attended Saint Paul Academy -
When he was 13...
His first piece of writing appeared in print: a detective story published in the school newspaper. -
When he was 15....
His parents sent him to the Newman School, a prestigious Catholic preparatory school in New Jersey. There, he met Father Sigourney Fay, who noticed his incipient talent with the written word and encouraged him to pursue his literary ambitions. -
When he was 17...
After graduating from the Newman School in 1913, Fitzgerald decided to stay in New Jersey to continue his artistic development at Princeton University. -
At the age of 21...
In 1917, he dropped out of school to join the U.S. Army. Afraid that he might die in World War I with his literary dreams unfulfilled, in the weeks before reporting to duty, Fitzgerald hastily wrote a novel called The Romantic Egotist. Though the publisher, Charles Scribner's Sons, rejected the novel, the reviewer noted its originality and encouraged Fitzgerald to submit more work in the future. -
When he was 22...
He met Zelda Sayre an eighteen year old girl from Montgomery Alabama -
World War I Ends
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At 23...
Fitzgerald quit his job in July 1919 and returned to St. Paul to rewrite his novel as This Side of Paradise. -
When he was 24....
F. Scott Fitzgerald married Zelda Sayre -
When he was 25....
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. -
When he was 28...
The Fitzgeralds set sail for France. They spend most of the next seven years in Europe, predominantly in Paris. -
When he was 29...
The Great Gatsby is published. -
At the age of 41...
"Trouble," Fitzgerald's last story for The Saturday Evening Post, is published. -
At the age of 44...
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.
