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F. Scott Fitzgerald was born -
Fitzgerald family moves back to St. Paul after his dad loses his job. He attends St. Paul Academy
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He attends Newman School in New Jersey, he meets Fatehr Sigourney Fay who recognizes him and encourages him to keep writing.
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He attends Princeton University becomes a leading figure in literary life, he eventually flunks out and leave Princeton in 2017. He is then stationed near Montgomery Alabama soon meeting Zelda Sayre.
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After he lands a job in New York City, he works for several months. Once Zelda breaks off engagement, he returns to St. Paul and works on novel.
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His first book This Side of Paradise is published which brings him fame and money. He marries Zelda in April. -
He creates his second novel The Beautiful and Damned. And Tales of the Jazz Age, a short story collection, is also published.
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He has a daughter, Francis (born 1921) and they move and leave to France. Spending time in Paris, and then moving to Riviera. -
After he publishes The Great Gatsy, he starts drinking excessively. Zelda suffers a mental breakdown in 1930. After released from the European clinics in 1931, they move back to the U.S.. She publishes her first and only novel Save Me the Waltz based on her marriage with Fitzgerald.
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Fitzgerald publishes his last completed novel Tender Is the Night. This is one of his most commercially unsuccessful books.
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Zelda enters highland hospital in Asheville, North Carolina.
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In 1937, Fitzgerald moves to Hollywood and becomes a scriptwriter. -
He meets and falls in love with Sheilah Graham
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In 1939 he begins writing a novel about Hollywood entitled The Last Tycoon
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December 21, 1940 Fitzgerald dies of a heart attack. -
The following year after his death his last book The Last Tycoon is published.