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Birth
F Scott Fitzgerald is born in St. Paul Minnesota -
First publication
F. Scott Fitzgerald is in print for the first time with “the Mystery of the Raymond Mortgage” -
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Princeton
Fitzgerald starts at Princeton University. He meets friends Edmund Wilson and John Bishop. -
U.S.Army
close to failing out of Princeton, Fitzgerald enters as an infantry second lieutenant in the U.S. Army and leaves school. He never graduates from Princeton. Soon after reporting for military duty, he starts a novel called “The Romantic Egoist.” -
Marriage to Zelda
This Side of Paradise, Fitzgerald's first novel, is published. A week later, he and Zelda marry in New York. -
Travel
The Fitzgeralds depart for their first trip to Europe. They spend three months in England, France and Italy before going home to the U.S. -
Birth of daughter
Their only child Scottie is born -
Publication
“The Beautiful Damned” is published -
Big move
The Fitzgeralds set sail for France. They spend most of the next seven years in Europe, mostly Paris. -
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby is published. The Fitzgeralds, who have been traveling in Europe, settle in Paris. -
Stock market crash
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Zelda Fitzgerald
Zelda suffers her first nervous breakdown and spends much of the next year hospitalized in various clinics in Switzerland. In November Fitzgerald publishes the short story "One Trip Abroad," about an American couple who fall apart in Europe. -
Publication
Tender is the Night is published. Zelda suffers her third mental breakdown -
Death of F Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald dies of a heart attack at Sheilah Graham's Hollywood, California apartment. He is buried in Rockville, Maryland, where his father was born. -
Death of Zelda
Zelda Fitzgerald dies in a fire at Highland Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina.
