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F. Scott Fitzgerald was born
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald is born in St. Paul, Minnesota -
Moved to Minnesota
Edward Fitzgerald is moving his family back to St. Paul after a failed career as a salesman in the state of New York. Scott enrolled at St. Paul Academy in September. -
First Publication
At 14 years of age, F. In the student journal St. Paul Academy Now and Then, Scott Fitzgerald appears in print for the first time, with "The Mystery of the Raymond Mortgage". -
Princeton
With the class of 1917, Fitzgerald entered Princeton University. He soon meets men who, including the writers Edmund Wilson and John Peale Bishop, will remain lifelong friends and influences. -
Falls in Love
Fitzgerald encounters Ginevra King, in his later fiction, his first significant love interest and a major influence on many female characters. They date but part ways too. -
US Army Service
Fitzgerald takes on a commission as an infantry second lieutenant in the U.S. on academic probation and close to flunking out of Princeton. Army and leaves school at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas to report for service. He was never a Princeton graduate. He starts a novel entitled The Romantic Egoist, shortly after reporting for military service. -
Armistice Day
Before Second Lieutenant Fitzgerald ever leaves the United States, World War I ends. One of Fitzgerald's biggest regrets will forever be his inability to see international combat. -
Marriage to Zelda Sayre
This Side of Paradise, Fitzgerald's first novel, is published. A week later, he and Zelda marry in St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York. -
Birth of Daughter Scottie Fitzgerald
The first and only child was born to the Fitzgeralds, a daughter named Frances Scott "Scottie" Fitzgerald. The family moved to St. Paul the next month and remained there until June. -
Move to Paris
To France, the Fitzgeralds sailed. For the most part, they spend the next seven years in Europe , mainly in Paris. -
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby is being released. A few weeks later, the Fitzgeralds, who had been moving across Europe, settled in Paris. -
Return to America
The Saturday Evening Post publishes "Babylon Revisited" and "Emotional Bankruptcy" stories that both concentrate on characters that reflect on the aftermath of the Crash. The Fitzgeralds would return to the U.S. in September. -
Autobiographical essay
In Esquire magazine, Fitzgerald's first three-part autobiographical essay, "The Crack-Up," describing his own mental breakdown, appears. In April, the third and final portion plays, the same month that Zelda is admitted to mental asylum at the Highland Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina. She's been staying there for the majority of her life, on and off. -
Failed Screenwriting Career
Fitzgerald spends this year bouncing between freelance jobs in Hollywood and bouts with his alcoholism after losing his MGM deal in December 1938. He briefly focused on Gone With the Wind in January. He gets a job in a Winter Carnival production in February, but is fired for drunkenness and hospitalized in New York. -
Death of F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. In Sheilah Graham 's apartment in Hollywood, California, Scott Fitzgerald dies of a heart attack. He is buried in the Maryland town of Rockville, where his father was born.
