American dreamer By 889053 Sep 24, 1896 F. Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24, in St. Paul, Minnesota 1913 Fitzgerald enters Princeton university, where he would try his hand at writing 1917 Left Princeton to join the army 1918 Stationed at camp Sheridan near Montgomery, Alabama where he met Zelda Sayre 1920 He wrote his first novel, This Side of Paradise and married Zelda 1922 Wrote the Beautiful and Damned 1924 The Fitzgeralds moved to France 1925 Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby 1930 Zelda was put into a mental institution after she had a mental breakdown 1934 Wrote Tender Is the Night 1937 Fitzgerald moved to Hollywood to work as a screenwriter 1939 Began to write The Last Tycoon Dec 21, 1940 Died of a heart attack when living in Hollywood 1941 The Last Tycoon was published after he passed 1948 Zelda died when a hospital caught on fire
