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Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896, in St. Paul Minnesota, to Molly and Edward Fitzgerald.
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Fitzgerald was a part of the Princeton class of 1917 but was put on academic probation due to neglecting his academic studies. This failure motivated him to join the Army in 1917. -
Shortly after joining the Army Fitzgerald wrote his first novel titled, "The Romantic Egotist". The novel was sadly rejected by the publishing company Charles Scribner Sons or The Scribner Press.
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In 1918, Fitzgerald is assigned to Camp Sheridan near Montgomery Alabama. While at Camp Sheridan, Fitzgerald met Zelda Sayer, the youngest daughter of an Alabama Supreme Court Judge. Zelda would later become his wife. -
In 1919, Fitzgerald is discharged from the Army and moves to New York to seek fortune to marry Zelda. Zelda denies his marriage due to not wanting to live off his small salary.
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Fitzgerald moves back to St. Paul Minnesota to rewrite his unpublished novel "The Romantics Egotists" as "This Side of Paradise". The novel was accepted by the editor Maxwell Perkins of Scribners.
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One week after Fitzgerald's novel "This Side of Paradise" was published he married Zelda in New York. -
One year after the Fitzgerald's marriage, Zelda became pregnant with their only child Francis Scott Fitzgerald. This inspired them to move back to St. Paul rather than stay in New York. -
The Fitzgerald's visited France and while there Mr. Fitzgerald wrote "The Great Gatsby", while in Rome he revised the novel, the novel was then published.
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Mrs. Fitzgerald began training intensely in ballet which damaged her health. She suffered her first severe breakdown in April of 1930 and was treated for it until 1931. She relapsed in 1932 and was hospitalized for it.
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Mr. Fitzgerald completes his fourth novel "Tender is the Night" which mirrors the relationship between Zelda and Scott at the time.
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At around the age of fourteen, the Fitzgerald's child was sent to boarding school due to neither parent being able to care for her.
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Fitzgerald experiences alcoholism and is unable to write short stories, novels, commercial stories, etc., which become known as his crack-up-years.
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Fitzgerald began working on his last novel "The Love of the Last Tycoon" and finished half the novel before passing away.
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Fitzgerald died due to a heart attack and believed he was a failure due to not publishing many novels.