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Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald is born in St. Paul, Minnesota -
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School
Fitzgerald enrolls at the Newman School, a Catholic prep school in New Jersey. -
University
He enters Princeton University, where he writes for the Princeton Triangle Club and contributes to literary magazines. -
Army
Fitzgerald drops out of Princeton and joins the U.S. Army as World War I rages. -
Zelda
He meets Zelda Sayre in Montgomery, Alabama, while stationed there. -
New York
After being discharged from the military, Fitzgerald moves to New York and starts revising a novel he had begun at Princeton. -
First novel
His first novel, This Side of Paradise, is published, launching his career and leading to his marriage to Zelda. -
Published novel
Fitzgerald publishes The Beautiful and Damned, which delves into the moral decay of a young couple in high society. -
France
Fitzgerald and Zelda move to France, where he begins writing The Great Gatsby. -
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby is published, initially receiving modest reviews, though it later becomes his most famous work. -
Mental breakdown
Zelda has her first mental breakdown, and she is eventually diagnosed with schizophrenia. -
Tender is the Night
Fitzgerald publishes Tender is the Night, a novel about a psychiatrist and his wife, which reflects the struggles in his own life. -
Hollywood
Fitzgerald moves to Hollywood to work as a screenwriter, where he becomes involved with columnist Sheilah Graham. -
Death
Fitzgerald dies of a heart attack at age 44, while working on his unfinished novel The Last Tycoon.