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Siblings
Siblings. F. Scott Fitzgerald had two sisters who died before he was born, Louise (Louisa) (1892-1896) and Mary Ashton (1893-1895). Another sister died shortly after birth in 1900 and his only surviving sister was Annabel (1901-1987). -
Hometown
Born on September 24, 1896, in Saint Paul, Minnesota, to an upper-middle-class family, Fitzgerald was named after his second cousin thrice removed, Francis Scott Key, but was always known as Scott Fitzgerald. -
Living in Buffalo
During those early years, the Fitzgerald family lived at various addresses including a boarding house in what is now known as the Lenox Hotel and a private residence on Highland Avenue. He attended Holy Angels Convent from 1903-1904 and Nardin Academy from 1905-1908. -
When he started his writing career
When he was 13, he saw his first piece of writing appear in print: a detective story published in the school newspaper. In 1911, when Fitzgerald was 15 years old, his parents sent him to the Newman School, a prestigious Catholic preparatory school in New Jersey. -
F Scott Fitzgerald school
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and short story writer. He was best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age—a term which he popularized -
Joined the army in 1917
However, Fitzgerald's writing came at the expense of his coursework. He was placed on academic probation, and, in 1917, he dropped out of school to join the U.S. Army. -
When he met his wife
In 1918, Lt. F. Scott Fitzgerald met Zelda Sayre, the 18-year-old daughter of a judge, at a country club dance in Montgomery, Ala., where he was stationed. That chance encounter led to a 22-year romance that would become the subject of biographies and movies, accounts told from an outsider's perspective. -
When he got famous
Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) rose to prominence as a chronicler of the jazz age. Born in St. Paul, Minn., Fitzgerald dropped out of Princeton University to join the U.S. Army. The success of his first novel, This Side of Paradise (1920), made him an instant celebrity. -
When his first novel was published
This Side of Paradise is the debut novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1920. The book examines the lives and morality of American youth in the aftermath of World War I. Its protagonist Amory Blaine is an attractive student at Princeton University who dabbles in literature. -
When they got married
Zelda Fitzgerald was an American socialite, novelist, and painter. Born in Montgomery, Alabama, she was noted for her beauty and high spirits, and was dubbed by her husband F. Scott Fitzgerald as "the first American flapper". She and Scott became emblems of the Jazz Age, for which they are still celebrated. -
Thier first and only child Scottie Fitzgerald Smith
Frances Scott Smith, the only child of Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald, The only child of F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda, Frances Scott Fitzgerald (1921-1986), nicknamed Scottie, was a Washington Post columnist, playwright, composer and producer of musicals and a Democratic Party insider. Frances Scott "Scottie" Fitzgerald was the only child of novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald. She was a writer, a journalist, and a prominent member of the Democratic Party. -
Moving to Paris
As a social historian Fitzgerald became identified with the Jazz Age: “It was an age of miracles, it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of satire,” he wrote in “Echoes of the Jazz Age.” Seeking tranquility for his work the Fitzgeralds went to France in the spring of 1924 . -
Writing the Great Gastpy
Scott wrote short stories to cover the family's debt after his play, The Vegetable, failed to make it into production. The family moved to France in the spring of 1924 so that F. Scott would be able to focus on his newest project, the novel that would become The Great Gatsby. -
Zelda Sayre
There he fell in love with a celebrated belle, eighteen-year-old Zelda Sayre, the youngest daughter of an Alabama Supreme Court judge. The romance intensified Fitzgerald's hopes for the success of his novel, but after revision it was rejected by Scribners for a second time. -
His and his wife’s deaths
After being diagnosed with schizophrenia, she was increasingly confined to specialist clinics, and the couple were living apart when Scott died suddenly in 1940. Zelda died over seven years later in a fire at the hospital in Asheville, North Carolina, in which she was a patient.