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Fitzgerald Is Born
St. Paul, Minnesota -
St. Paul Academy
After his father is let go from his sales job in New York, the family moved back to St. Paul Minnesota to live off his mother's inheritance. There, Fitzgerald attneded St. Paul Academy, where his first writing appeared in print in the school's newspaper. -
Newman School
In 1911, Fitzgerald started attending the Newman School, a Catholic prep school in New Jersey. There he was encouraged by Father Sigourney Fay to continue his writing career. Fitzgerald graduated from school in 1913. -
Fitzgerald Falls In Love
Fitzgerald meets Ginevra King, his first serious love interest and a major influence on several female characters in his later fiction. They date but soon part ways. -
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. -
Armistice Day
World War I ends before Second Lieutenant Fitzgerald ever leaves the U.S. His failure to see foreign combat will forever be one of Fitzgerald's greatest regrets. -
Begins Professional Writing Career
Fitzgerald interrupts his career in novel writing to write stories for magazines. His main focused on characters who were young, independent American women. -
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
The Fitzgeralds depart for their first trip 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 Beautiful and Damned
The Beautiful and Damned is published. -
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby is published. The Fitzgeralds, who have been traveling about Europe, settle in Paris a few weeks later. -
Last Story of Saturday Evening Post
"Trouble," Fitzgerald's last story for The Saturday Evening Post, is published. -
Death of Fitzgerald
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
The Last Tycoon is published posthumously.
