F.Scott Fitzgerald Background Research

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  • Birth

    F.Scott Fitzgerald was born September 24th, 1896 in Saint Paul Minnesota.

  • Life growing up

    Fitzgerald was the only son of a father who was unsuccessful, and a mother who was energetic in contrast.

  • Imagination

    Fitzgerald had a rather romantic imagination that he sought out to make real, but he tried too hard making him an outcast at St. Paul Academy. But became successful after making two lifelong friends at Princeton University (Edmund Wilson and John Peale Bishop).

  • Military

    Military
    In November of 1917, he left Princeton to join the military.

  • July of 1918

    In July of 1918, while he had been stationed near Montgomery, Alabama, he met the daughter of a Supreme Court judge, Zelda Sayre.

  • Popularity

    This popularity ended up in more interviews and big talks for Fitzgerald, and Zelda. Ring Ladner called them the prince and princess of their generation.

  • Spring of 1920

    Spring of 1920
    Fitzgerald returned back to St. Paul Minnesota to write a novel he had already been writing. In spring of 1920, he published the book and married Zelda.

  • The book he published

    The book he published
    The book he published was This Side Of Paradise, which was a revelation of the “new mortality of the young.” This took of Fitzgeralds career.

  • 1922

    1922
    They loved, but were frightened by their roles — as the ending of Fitzgeralds novel The Beautiful and Damned showed. This book showed a handsome and beautiful man and woman who slowly degenerated into shopworn middle aged people who waited for a young man to inherit a fortune.

  • Moved

    Moved
    To escape the life they believe to be their end, they moved with their daughter Frances to Riviera in 1924. Which the community their in inspires another book of his (Tender Is the Night).

  • France 1925

    After arriving to France, he completed another novel The Great Gatsby.

  • The Great Gatsby

    The Great Gatsby became the most profound American novel of its time.

  • The next decade

    The next decade, the Fitzgeralds’ lives were disorderly and unorganized. Fitzgerald began drinking, and Zelda did ballet day and night

  • 1932

    When Zelda had a break down she would never recover from in 1932, it took until 1934 for F.Scott to finish his book Tender Is the Night.

  • Death

    With failure and disparity, F.Scott Fitzgerald died December 21, 1940 after dying of a heart attack at 44 years old with a half finished novel waiting. Source: https://www.britannica.com/