-
Birth
Birth of Francis Scott Fitzgerald -
Joining Army
He became motivated to join the army in 1917, after failures as a regular student. He wrote his first novel, The Romantic Egotist, shortly after joining, but it was rejected. -
Meeting Zelda
Assigned to Camp Sheridan near Montgomery Alabama, where he met Zelda, the youngest daughter of a supreme court judge. -
New York
Francis went to seek a fortune (to marry zelda) in New York after being discharged from the army, but Zelda broke off the engagement because she refused to live off of his small salary. -
This Side of Paradise
He quit his job and returned to St. Paul to rewrite his novel as This Side Of Paradise. -
Accepted
His work, This Side Of Paradise, was accepted this time by Editor Maxwell Perkins. -
Career
Near the end of 1919, he officially commenced his career as a writer for mass circulation magazines, such as the Saturday evening post. -
Marriage
A week after This Side Of Paradise was published, Francis and Zelda were married in New York -
Pregnancy and Birth
Zelda became pregnant a year after their marriage, which motivated them to move back to St. Paul for the birth of their only child, Francis Scott Fitzgerald in October of 1921. -
The Vegetable
In the fall of 1922, they moved to Great neck, Long Island in order to be near Broadway, as Francis had written a play called "The Vegetable". The play failed, and he wrote his way out of debt with short stories. -
France, The Great Gatsby
They went to France in the spring of 1924, where the Great Gatsby was written. He revised the book for a year while in Rome, on route to Paris when it was published. It received critical praise, but the sales were disappointing. -
Ballet
Zelda started ballet training in the hopes of becoming a professional dancer, the family moving back to Paris in the spring of 1929, where intense training damaged her health. -
Breakdown
Zelda suffered her first breakdown at in April of 1930, and was treated at a clinic in Switzerland until September 1931. During this time, Francis' work was paused to focus on writing short stories to paper her psychiatric treatment. -
Return
The family returned to america in the fall of 1931, where Zelda relapsed and entered John Hopkins hospital. -
Tender Is The Night
Fitzgerald finished his 4th novel, Tender Is The Night, in 1934, which examined the deterioration of marriage between an american psychiatrist and a wealthy mental patient. The novel mirrored his relationship with Zelda at the time.
