F. Scott Fitzgerald Background

By Ellen.Tabiri23

  • F. Scott was born

    He was born in Minnesota

  • He went to Princeton University

    He neglected his studies from his classes.

  • Fitzgerald was out in academic probation which motivated him to join the army

  • Fitzgerald was assigned a camp share near Alabama where he met Zelda

  • Fitzgerald wanted to marry Zelda so they went to New York

    She broke off the engagement.

  • Fitzgerald quit his job and went to re-write his novel

  • A week after his novel was published, Him and Zelda got married

  • The Fitzgeralds moved to New York Cory where he wrote his second novel

  • He had an only child named Francis Scott Fitzgerald

  • They moved near Broadway because Fitzgerald written a play called ‘The Vegetable’

  • Fitzgerald wrote ‘The Great Gadsby’ in France

  • He revised the Gadsby in Rome

    Between the end of 1924 to the beginning of 1925

  • Zelda suffered her first breakdown

    While she got her treatment, Fitzgerald paused on writing his novel to create short stories to pay for her psychiatric bills

  • He finished his fourth novel

  • Worked with MGM as a screenwriter