F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • Birth

    Birth
    St. Paul Minnesota
  • Joined the army

    Joined the army
  • Assigned to camp Sheridan in Montgomery Alabama

  • Discharged from the army

  • Quit his job

  • Returned to St. Paul Minnesota

    Returned to St. Paul Minnesota
  • His novel was accepted by Maxwell Perkins

  • Officially commenced his career as a writer for mass circulation magazines

    Around the end of 1919
  • The Saturday Evening Post would become his best story market

    The Saturday Evening Post would become his best story market
  • The Fitzgeralds moved to NYC where Scott wrote his second novel “The Beautiful and Damned”

    The Fitzgeralds moved to NYC where Scott wrote his second novel “The Beautiful and Damned”
  • A week after “This Side of Paradise” was published Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayer were married in New York

  • Zelda became pregnant

  • They move to Great Neck Long Island to be near broadway because he has wrote about it

    They move to Great Neck Long Island to be near broadway because he has wrote about it
  • The Fitzgeralds went to France

  • The Great Gatsby was written

    The Great Gatsby was written