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Born
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald is born in St. Paul, Minnesota -
School
Attends a Catholic prep school in New Jersey, where he meets Father Sigourney Fay, who encourages his dreams of success. -
Princeton University
Fitzgerald enters Princeton University and writes for The Princeton Tiger, the school’s humor magazine. -
Meeting Zelda
Scott and Zelda meet at a county club dance in Montgomery. -
NYC
Fitzgerald moves to New York City and gets a job at an advertising agency. -
Married
He marries Zelda in April. -
2nd novel
Fitzgerald’s second novel, The Beautiful and Damned, is published. Tales of the Jazz Age, a collection of short stories, is also published. -
Writing The Great Gatsby.
The Fitzgeralds rent the Villa Marie in Saint-Raphaël on the French Riviera. Scott writes The Great Gatsby. -
Moving
The family moves to the Riviera. -
Problems
Fitzgerald’s drinking becomes excessive, and Zelda suffers a mental breakdown -
Zelda writes
Zelda begins a novel and writes several short stories. -
Unsuccessful book
Fitzgerald’s last completed novel, Tender Is the Night, is published. It is one of his most moving books but is commercially unsuccessful. -
Sheilah Graham
Fitzgerald moves to Hollywood and becomes a scriptwriter. He meets and falls in love with Sheilah Graham -
Death
Fitzgerald dies of a heart attack in Hollywood. -
The last book
The Last Tycoon is published in the year after his death.