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Francis Fitzgerald is born
Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born to Edward and Molly Fitzgerald on the 24th of September in 1896. -
Princeton university
Francis entered into Princeton university with the class of 1917 -
joining the army
In 1918 since he was on academic probation for failing as a student, he decided that joining the army could motivate him and he was expecting to die during the army so he wrote his first novel "the romantic egoists''. -
meeting Zelda
In June of 1918, Fitzgerald got stationed in Montgomery Alabama where he met the daughter of an Alabama Supreme Court judge, Zelda sayer at a county club dance -
breaking off the engagement
In 1919 Fitzgerald went to new York to marry Zelda when she broke off the engagement because she said she couldn't live off his small salary -
Fitzgerald quits his job
Fitzgerald had quit his job in July 1919 to return to Saint Paul to write his novel "this side of paradise". -
starting his career
by the end of 1919 Fitzgerald had finally started his writing career writing for magazines like the Saturday evening post -
getting married
a while after "this side of paradise" got published, Zelda sayer and Fitzgerald had went to New York to get married -
moving to New York
the Fitzgeralds had moved to New York City where he had written his second novel, "the beautiful and damned". -
having a baby
after a year of being married, Zelda had gotten pregnant and they had decided to return to Saint Paul for the birth of their child who was born in October of 1921. -
moving to broadway
in the fall of 1922 the Fitzgeralds had decided to move to great neck in Long Island to be close to broadway since he had written a play called "the vegetable" but the play had failed so Fitzgerald had written short stories to get his way out of debt. -
the great gatsby
the Fitzgeralds had went to France in spring of 1924 where he had written "the great gatsby" and then when he had went to Rome he revised "the great gatsby" in the winter of 1924-1925. -
the great gatsby is published
him and his family had went to Paris when the novel got published and had gotten critical prays but the sales weren't good, they stayed in Paris until the end of 1926 -
moving back to America
they had moved back to America so he can focus on his novels more, renting a mansion in Delaware for a few years and Zelda had wanted to become a professional dancer so they returned to Paris for ballet training but it had damaged Zeldas health so she had gotten treated at a clinic in 1931 and Fitzgerald had to write short stories to pay for her health. -
moving alone
Fitzgerald had fallen into alcoholism and moved to Hollywood by himself in 1937 to work as a screen writer. he was writing a novel called "the love of the last tycoon", working on the draft when he passed from a heart attack in December 21 1940. Fitzgerald had died thinking of himself as a failure because of his alcoholism and not being able to write novels that much. later on Zelda Fitzgerald had died in march of 1948.
