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Birth
F. Scott Fitzgerald was born -
Moving life
Fitzgerald family moves back to St. Paul after his dad loses his job. He attends St. Paul Academy -
School
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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Princeton University
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. -
Moving
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. -
First book
His first book This Side of Paradise is published which brings him fame and money. He marries Zelda in April. -
Second novel
He creates his second novel The Beautiful and Damned. And Tales of the Jazz Age, a short story collection, is also published. -
Daughter
He has a daughter, Francis (born 1921) and they move and leave to France. Spending time in Paris, and then moving to Riviera. -
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Books
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. -
Last completed novel
Fitzgerald publishes his last completed novel Tender Is the Night. This is one of his most commercially unsuccessful books. -
Zelda
Zelda enters highland hospital in Asheville, North Carolina. -
Hollywood scriptwriter
In 1937, Fitzgerald moves to Hollywood and becomes a scriptwriter. -
Falls in love again
He meets and falls in love with Sheilah Graham -
Begins writing another novel
In 1939 he begins writing a novel about Hollywood entitled The Last Tycoon -
Death
December 21, 1940 Fitzgerald dies of a heart attack. -
Last book
The following year after his death his last book The Last Tycoon is published.