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F. Scott Fitzgerald is born in St. Paul, Minnesota on September 24th, 1896.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald meets his wife, Zelda, while in the army in 1917. -
He was discharged from the army, and moves to New York City in 1919.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes his first novel, ‘This Side of Paradise’, a year later. It becomes an immediate bestseller, and he gets rich because of it. -
In 1924, Fitzgerald moves to France, hoping to find inspiration and spark his creativity. -
A year after moving to France, he publishes his greatest work, ‘The Great Gatsby’. -
In 1937, Fitzgerald goes to Hollywood to write screenplays to make money as quickly as possible, so he could leave town again and work on what he really wanted to do. -
In the middle of his last novel, ‘The Last Tycoon’, F. Scott Fitzgerald dies of a heart attack on December 21st, 1940.