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F. Scott Fitzgerald Was born
F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in Minnesota. His parents were Edward and Molly Fitzgerald -
F. Scott Fitzgerald is in College
Fitzgerald started school at Princeton in 1915 but never went on to graduate. -
F. Scott Fitzgerald drops out of College and joins the army
Due to Fitzgerald‘s lack of concentration on his studies and bad grades, he dropped out of college and joined the army. -
Fitzgerald Wrote his first novel, The Romantic Egotist
The Scribner press declined his book shortly after -
Fitzgerald Met Zelda
Fitzgerald Was assigned to camp Sheridan where he shorty met Zelda, the daughter of an Alabama Supreme Court judge -
Fitzgerald Was discharged from the army
He moved to New York in hopes of marrying Zelda and starting a life together -
Fitzgerald quit his job in New York
After Zelda broke his heart, not wanting to live off of his low salary -
Fitzgerald Returns to Saint Paul
It’s here where he rewrites his first novel, into “This Side of Paradise” -
The novel was accepted!!
By scribners -
Fitzgerald Becomes writers for a big magazine
Such as: The Saturday evening post, which becomes one of his most famous writings. -
Fitzgerald Married Zelda
A week after his novel was published -
Wrote his second novel “the beautiful and damned”
Based on New York cafe society during the jazz age -
This side of paradise was published
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Zelda becomes pregnant
Shortly after, they move back to Saint Paul -
Their only child was born
Her name was Francis -
Fitzgerald and his family moved to great neck Long Island
They wanted to be closer to Broadway because of a play Fitzgerald had wrote a play called “the vegetable” but the play failed and Fitzgerald wrote his way out of debt with short stories -
Moved to France
Where he wrote the Great Gatsby -
Revised the Great Gatsby
While he was in Rome -
Moved back to the U.S.
They rented a mansion in Delaware for two years, and Zelda started ballet training hoping to become a professional dancer -
Returned to Paris
Zeldas intense ballet training damaged her health -
Zelda suffered from her first breakdown
Was treated at a clinic in Switzerland for a year and Fitzgerald had to put his work on pause and write short stories again to pay for her treatment -
Returned to the U.S.
Zelda relapsed a year later where she went to John Hopkins hospital in Baltimore -
Completed his 4th novel “Tender is the Night”
This novel examines the deterioration of a relationship of a psychiatrist and a mental patient -
Fitzgerald Is having alcoholism issues
Which effects his writing a lot and causes his popularity to decline -
Moved to Hollywood
Worked with MGM as a screenwriter until 1939 -
Started writing another novel “The Love of the last tycoon”
Was halfway written when he died -
Died
From a heart attack