Timeline F. Scott Fitzgerald

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• 1896 F. Scott Fitzgerald born in St Paul Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald is born in St Paul, Minnesota, named after a distant relative who wrote The Star-Spangled Banner.
• 1913 Fitzgerald enters Princeton F. Scott Fitzgerald goes to Princeton, where he writes for the Triangle Club but never graduates.
• 1917 Fitzgerald joins the army F. Scott Fitzgerald is commissioned as a second lieutenant. The war ends before he is sent overseas.
• 1918 Fitzgerald meets Zelda Sayre Stationed near Montgomery, Alabama, F. Scott Fitzgerald meets the judge's daughter Zelda Sayre at a country-club dance.
• 1920 Fitzgerald publishes This Side of Paradise F. Scott Fitzgerald's first novel is an overnight success. A week later he marries Zelda in New York.
• 1921 Fitzgerald's daughter Scottie born Frances Scott "Scottie" Fitzgerald, their only child, is born in St Paul.
• 1922 Fitzgerald publishes Tales of the Jazz Age F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes The Beautiful and Damned and the story collection that names the decade.
• 1924 Fitzgerald moves to the Riviera F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda move to the French Riviera, where he finishes The Great Gatsby.
• 1925 Fitzgerald publishes The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel of Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan sells modestly. It is now one of the most read American novels.
• 1925 Fitzgerald meets Ernest Hemingway F. Scott Fitzgerald meets the young Ernest Hemingway in Paris and recommends him to his editor Maxwell Perkins.
• 1930 Zelda Fitzgerald's breakdown Zelda Fitzgerald suffers her first breakdown in Paris and is treated in a Swiss clinic.
• 1934 Fitzgerald publishes Tender Is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel of a psychiatrist and his troubled wife on the Riviera sells poorly.
• 1936 Fitzgerald's The Crack-Up F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes a candid series of essays about his breakdown in Esquire.
• 1937 Fitzgerald goes to Hollywood F. Scott Fitzgerald signs as a screenwriter with MGM and meets the columnist Sheilah Graham.
• 1940 F. Scott Fitzgerald dies in Hollywood F. Scott Fitzgerald dies of a heart attack at 44, believing himself a failure. His unfinished The Last Tycoon is published in 1941.