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Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald is born in St. Paul, Minnesota -
Attends a Catholic prep school in New Jersey, where he meets Father Sigourney Fay, who encourages his dreams of success.
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Fitzgerald enters Princeton University and writes for The Princeton Tiger, the school’s humor magazine.
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Scott and Zelda meet at a county club dance in Montgomery.
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Fitzgerald moves to New York City and gets a job at an advertising agency.
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He marries Zelda in April. -
Fitzgerald’s second novel, The Beautiful and Damned, is published. Tales of the Jazz Age, a collection of short stories, is also published.
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The Fitzgeralds rent the Villa Marie in Saint-Raphaël on the French Riviera. Scott writes The Great Gatsby. -
The family moves to the Riviera.
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Fitzgerald’s drinking becomes excessive, and Zelda suffers a mental breakdown
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Zelda begins a novel and writes several short stories.
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Fitzgerald’s last completed novel, Tender Is the Night, is published. It is one of his most moving books but is commercially unsuccessful.
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Fitzgerald moves to Hollywood and becomes a scriptwriter. He meets and falls in love with Sheilah Graham -
Fitzgerald dies of a heart attack in Hollywood.
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The Last Tycoon is published in the year after his death.