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Born on September 24, 1896
Born in Saint Paul Minnesota his parents are Edward and Molly Fitzgerald -
Princeton class
Member of Princeton class of 1917, he contributed to the Princeton tiger humormagazine -
Academic probation
He’s put on academic probation for neglecting his schoolwork to focus on his writing -
Joins army
Academic probation motivated him into joining the army -
Assigned to camp Sheridan
He meets Zelda Sayer his future wife at camp Sheridan -
Discharge from army
Fitzgerald was discharged from the army in 1919, he moves to New York to seek out fortune and he wants to marry Zelda, but she breaks off engagement because she’s unwilling to live off of his small salary -
Quits his job
Are you quits his job July 1919 and he returns home to rewrite his novel -
Novel gets accepted
Fitzgerald‘s novel gets excepted by the editor Maxwell Ferkins, he officially commits to the career of writing stories -
He marries Zelda
after this side of paradise was published, The novel brings him fame and money, he marries Zelda, A year after they were married Zelda became pregnant -
Daughter was born
They moved back home and their daughter Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born in October 1921 -
Move to great neck Long Island
And they moved to great neck Long Island to be by Broadway, he wrote the play the vegetables but the play failed, he wrote his way out of debt with writing short stories -
Went went to France
Went to France in spring of 1924, for the great Gatsby -
Great Gatsby
he worked on revising the great Gatsby in Rome during winter between 1924 through 1925, he remained in France until the end of 1926 -
Returned home
The family returned home to Minnesota and rented out a mansion for around two years -
Returned to Paris
They returned to Paris In the spring of 1929, but Zelda’s ballet damaged her health because of the intense training -
Zelda‘s first breakdown
In April 2019 30 Zelda suffered her first break down from the damage of her ballet training, she was treated at Prague ins clinic in Switzerland until September 1931, and they returned home to America but in 1931 Zelda relapsed a year later and entered John Hopkins Hospital -
Fitzgerald completed his fourth novel in 1934
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Crack up years
Through 1936 and 1937 Fitzgerald had the crack up years, he struggled with alcoholism and not being able to publish, he couldn’t maintain a home for Scotty so she was sent to boarding school at 14 years old -
Moved to Hollywood
Fitzgerald move to Hollywood by himself in 1913 he worked with MGM a screen writing company -
Freelance work
In 1938 he began doing freelance script writing, he also worked on his last novel the last tycoon -
Died December 21 1940
He died of a heart attack
