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Birth
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St.Paul Minnesota to Molly and Edward Fitzgerald. -
I want to join the army
Fitzgerald was put on academic probation which motivated him to join the army -
Zelda Sayer
Assigned to Camp Sheridan near Montgomery, Alabama, Fitzgerald met his first wife Zelda Sayer. -
First novel
Fearful he would die in the trenches, Fitzgerald wrote his first novel “The Romantic Egoists” -
The rewrite
After quitting his job, Fitzgerald returned to St.Paul where he rewrote his novel, “This Side of Paradise” -
Accepted
“This Side Of Paradise” was accepted by editor Maxwell Perkins of Scribners -
The Jazz Age
Fitzgerald invents the term the Jazz Age -
Marriage at last
A week after “A Side of Paradise” was published, Zelda and Fitzgerald married in New York -
The birth of his first born
Frances Scott Fitzgerald -
The Vegetable
Fitzgerald attempts to make it on broadway by writing a play “The Vegetable” that flops when it opens in Atlantic CIty -
The Great Gatsby
The Fitzgeralds went to France where “The Great Gatsby” was written which embodies the American Dream -
Off to france
The Fitzgeralds head to France to escape prohibition -
The publication of The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby is published and Fitzgerald is met with disappointing sales and tepid reviews. -
Breakdown
Zelda suffered her first breakdown -
Death
Fitzgerald died due to a heart attack
