F Scott Fitzgerald was a great American author of novels and short stories who is particularly notable for defining the Jazz Age. His fifth novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon, was posthumously published unfinished. - AsNotedIn
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| 1896/09/24 | On the second floor of the Fitzgerald family home in St Paul, MN, Mary McQuillan Fitzgerald gives birth to a son, Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald. The boy will be called Scott. | Born | F Scott Fitzgerald Birthplace | St Paul, MN | F Scott Fitzgerald's Birthday | ||
| 1898/03/00 | After Mr Fitzgerald's furniture business fails, he is hire by P and G and the family moves to the Lenox Apartments in Buffalo. Two restaurants where they dined are gone: 8 floor sky-view was for families and single women and 1st fl pub-style for men only. | Life | Lenox Hotel | Buffalo, NY | |||
| 1899/04/00 | The Fitzgeralds move into a flat at Summer and Elmwood in Buffalo. The house is no longer standing. | Home | Lenox Hotel | Buffalo, NY | |||
| 1901/01/00 | The Fitzgerald family moves to Syracuse, New York. They first live at 603 W Genesee St, a building that no longer exists. | Life | |||||
| 1901/08/00 | Returning to Buffalo, NY, on a visit, the Fitzgerald family explores the Pan-American Exposition. | Visitor | Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society | Buffalo, NY | 1901 Pan-American Exposition | ||
| 1902/00/00 | The Fitzgerald family takes Apartment 201 in Kasson Place at 622 James St. | Home | Kasson Place Apartments | Syracuse, NY | |||
| 1903/00/00 | The Fitzgeralds move to 501 Catherine St in Syracuse, NY. Built in 1898 on the corner of East Willow St, the vacant building, with numerous code violations, was razed. | Home | |||||
| 1903/09/00 | Fitzgerald family move back to Buffalo and live at 29 Irving Place, in Allentown, not far from the Procter and Gamble offices at 683 Main Street (razed). | Home | F Scott Fitzgerald Childhood Home | Buffalo, NY | |||
| 1903/09/00 | Scott enters school at the Holy Angels Convent at the corner of Porter and West Avenues under the arrangement that he needs to go half a day but is allowed to choose which half. | Education | Holy Angels Church (Buffalo, NY) | Buffalo, NY | |||
| 1904/00/00 | Scott Fitzgerald learns the Vienna Waltz and other dances at the Twentieth Century Club, Buffalo, NY. Scott partners include Dorothy Knox, sister of Seymour Knox, and Harriet Mack. The Mack family owns the Buffalo Times. | Education | Twentieth Century Club (Buffalo, NY) | Buffalo, NY | |||
| 1905/09/00 | F Scott Fitzgerald attends St Mary's Academy and Industrial Female School of Buffalo. Nov 6, 1906, Mr Fitzgerald pays $6.42 for a 4 week term. | Education | Nardin Academy | Buffalo, NY | |||
| 1905/10/00 | Fitzgerald family moves to 71 Highland Avenue. | Home | Fitzgerald Highland Home | Buffalo, NY | |||
| 1911/11/00 | I saw a musical comedy called "The Quaker Girl" and from that day forth my desk bulged with Gilbert and Sullivan librettos and dozens of notebooks containing the germs of dozens of musical comedies. - FSF | Life | The Quaker Girl (stage musical) | ||||
| 1913/05/00 | Scott Enters takes various Princeton entrance exams including French, history, mathematics and Latin. When his scores prove to be insufficient, he is asked to travel to Princeton for an interview. | Education | |||||
| 1913/09/24 | At his Princeton interview, Scott persuades the admissions committee that it would be cruel for them to deny him entrance on his birthday. FSG wires home: ADMITTED SEND FOOTBALL PADS AND SHOES IMMEDIATELY PLEASE WAIT TRUNK | Education | Princeton University | Princeton | |||
| 1914/00/00 | 593 Summit Ave was the Fitzgerald home from 1914-1919 | Home | Fitzgerald Summit Terrace | St Paul, MN | |||
| 1915/07/00 | During the summer, Scott Fitzgerald spends a month on the Donahoe's Castle Mountain Livestock Company ranch. | Guest | The Diamond as Big as the Ritz (book) | Castle Mountain Cattle and Sheep Company | White Sulphur Springs | ||
| 1917/10/26 | Scott Fitzgerald enlist in the US Army. Found to be "qualified, physically, morally and in good horsemanship", he will be commissioned a Second Lieutenant. | Military | |||||
| 1917/11/20 | Lt F Scott Fitzgerald reports to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, for officers training and begin writing "The Romantic Egotist". | Military | This Side of Paradise (book) | Fort Leavenworth | Kansas | ||
| 1918/02/00 | Second Lt F Scott Fitzgerald is transferred to Camp Taylor near Louisville, Kentucky. | Military | Camp Zackary Taylor Historic District | Louisville, KY | |||
| 1918/03/00 | While on leave from the Army, Scott Fitzgerald completes his first draft of "The Romantic Egotist" at the Cottage Club in Princeton and sends it to Charles Scribner's Sons. | Author | This Side of Paradise (book) | University Cottage Club | Princeton | ||
| 1918/06/00 | Scott Fitzgerald is posted at Camp Sheridan (lost) in Montgomery, Alabama, where he reworks "The Romantic Egotist" and meets Zelda Sayre. Zelda and Scott may have been introduced at a Thorington tea party in the South House. | Author | This Side of Paradise (book) | Winter Place | Montgomery, AL | Marriage of Zelda Sayre and F Scott Fitzgerald | |
| 1918/07/00 | In the summer of 1918, Zelda Sayre meets Army Lt F Scott Fitzgerald from Camp Sheridan during a dance at the Montgomery Country Club (lost, current clubhouse built 1990) on Narrow Lane Rd, Montgomery, Alabama. | Groom | Marriage of Zelda Sayre and F Scott Fitzgerald | ||||
| 1918/09/07 | F Scott Fitzgerald falls in love with Zelda Sayre. Noted for her beauty and high spirits, Scott calls her "the first American Flapper". | Groom | Marriage of Zelda Sayre and F Scott Fitzgerald | ||||
| 1918/12/00 | After the War to End All Wars ends in November 1918, US Army 2nd Lt F Scott Fitzgerald departs Long Island to be discharged in Montgomery, Alabama. | Life | Marriage of Zelda Sayre and F Scott Fitzgerald | ||||
| 1919/00/00 | Early in their courtship, Zelda and Scott stroll in the Confederate Cemetery at Oakwood Cemetery. (On his last afternoon they walked, and she found their steps tending half-unconsciously toward one of her favorite haunts, the cemetery. - The Ice Palace) | Groom | The Ice Palace (short story) | Oakwood Cemetery | Montgomery, AL | ||
| 1919/00/00 | The Sazerac Cocktails brought up from New Orleans to Montgomery to celebrate an important occasion. - Short Autobiography, F Scott Fitzgerald | Life | Montgomery, AL | Alabama | Sazerac (cocktail) | ||
| 1919/01/00 | Started story (The Camel's Back) at 8 am and finished it at 7 pm, then recopied the manuscript by 4:30 am and mailed it a half-hour later. - F Scott Fitzgerald letter to a friend | Author | The Camel's Back (short story) | F Scott Fitzgerald's Boarding House | New Orleans | ||
| 1919/02/00 | Scott is discharged from the army: I arrived in NYC and presented my card to the office boys of 7 city editors asking to be taken on as a reporter.... I was going to trail murderers by day and do short stories by night. But the newspapers didn't need me. | Life | |||||
| 1919/03/00 | Scott becomes an Ad man at $90 a month, writing the slogans that while away the hours in trolley cars. At night, he begins writing short stories, the quickest in an 1.5 hours, the slowest in 3 days, while living in a single room at 200 Claremont Ave. | Work | Morningside Heights | ||||
| 1919/06/00 | I had 122 rejection slips pinned in a frieze about my room. I wrote movies. I wrote song lyrics. I wrote poems. I wrote sketchs. I wrote jokes. Near the end of June I sold one story for $30 (Babes in the Woods to The Smart Set.) | Author | Babes in the Woods (short story) | ||||
| 1919/06/00 | By June 1919, Zelda Sayre breaks her engagement with Scoot Fitzgerald over fears his would never make enough money career as a writer to support them. | Groom | Marriage of Zelda Sayre and F Scott Fitzgerald | ||||
| 1919/07/04 | Utterly disgusted with myself and all the editors, I went home to St Paul and informed family and friends that I had given up my position and had come home to write a novel. They nodded politely, changed the subject and spoke of me very gently. - FSF | Author | This Side of Paradise (book) | Fitzgerald Summit Terrace | St Paul, MN | ||
| 1919/09/00 | The Smart Set publishes F Scott Fitzgerald's short story, "Babes in the Woods". | Author | Babes in the Woods (short story) | ||||
| 1919/09/15 | But this time I knew what I was doing. I had a novel to write at last, and all through two hot months I wrote and revised and compiled and boiled down. On September fifteen This Side of Paradise was accepted by special delivery. - FSF | Author | This Side of Paradise (book) | Fitzgerald Summit Terrace | St Paul, MN | ||
| 1919/11/00 | Harold Ober at Reynolds agency takes F Scott Fitzgerald on as a client based on unsolicited stories FSF mailed him. Harold Ober's first sale is "Nest Feathers" to The Saturday Evening Post for $400. About three times what the Smart Set pays FSF. | Author | Head and Shoulders (short story) | ||||
| 1920/01/00 | In mid-January, Scott takes a room at a cheap boarding house in New Orleans for less than a month. He begins writing a novel titled "Dear Heart" which has been lost, edits proofs of "This Side of Paradise" and enjoys Sazerac cocktails. | Home | This Side of Paradise (book) | F Scott Fitzgerald's Boarding House | New Orleans | Sazerac (cocktail) | |
| 1920/02/24 | I HAVE SOLD THE MOVIE RIGHTS OF HEAD AND SHOULDERS TO THE METRO COMPANY FOR TWENTY FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS I LOVE YOU DEAREST GIRL. - FSF telegram to Zelda in Montgomery, Alabama | Groom | Head and Shoulders (short story) | Marriage of Zelda Sayre and F Scott Fitzgerald | |||
| 1920/03/26 | "This Side of Paradise" by F Scott Fitzgerald is published. The first printing sells out in 3 days. | Author | This Side of Paradise (book) | ||||
| 1920/04/00 | F Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre marry in the rectory of St Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. The choice of St Patrick's was suggested by the bride's mother as a location Scott would like. | Groom | St Patrick's Cathedral | New York City | Marriage of Zelda Sayre and F Scott Fitzgerald | ||
| 1920/05/01 | "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" is published in The Saturday Evening Post. | Author | Bernice Bobs Her Hair (short story) | ||||
| 1920/05/22 | "The Ice Palace" is published in The Saturday Evening Post. | Author | The Ice Palace (short story) | ||||
| 1920/05/29 | "The Offshore Pirate" appears in The Saturday Evening Post. | Author | The Offshore Pirate (short story) | ||||
| 1920/07/00 | F Scott Fitzgerald's "May Day" is published as a novelette in The Smart Set. | Author | May Day (book) | ||||
| 1920/09/00 | "Flappers and Philosophers" by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. | Author | Flappers and Philosophers | ||||
| 1920/10/00 | "The Jelly-Bean" is published in Metropolitan Magazine. | Author | The Jelly-Bean (short story) | ||||
| 1922/00/00 | The Beautiful and Damned - published | Author | The Beautiful and Damned | ||||
| 1922/05/27 | "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" arrives in Collier's Magazine. | Author | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (short story) | ||||
| 1922/06/00 | "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" by F Scott Fitzgerald shines in The Smart Set magazine. | Author | The Diamond as Big as the Ritz (book) | ||||
| 1922/09/22 | "Tales of the Jazz Age", a collection of eleven short stories by F Scott Fitzgerald, is published by Scribners. | Author | Tales of the Jazz Age (short story collection) | ||||
| 1922/10/00 | Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald move to Great Neck. Staying until April 1924, Scott works on "The Great Gatsby". | Home | The Great Gatsby (book) | F Scott Fitzgerald Home | North Hempstead | ||
| 1922/12/00 | "Winter Dreams" is published in Metropolitan Magazine. | Author | Winter Dreams (short story) | ||||
| 1923/05/00 | "Dice, Brassknuckles and Guitar" by F S Fitzgerald is published in Hearst's International. | Author | Dice, Brassknuckles and Guitar (short story) | ||||
| 1923/08/00 | F Scott Fitzgerald "Hot and Cold Blood" runs through Hearst's International. | Author | Hot and Cold Blood (short story) | ||||
| 1924/04/05 | How to Live on $36,000 a Year is published in Saturday Evening Post | Author | How to Live on $36,000 a Year | F Scott Fitzgerald Home | North Hempstead | ||
| 1924/06/00 | "Absolution" is published in The American Mercury. | Author | Absolution (short story) | ||||
| 1925/04/10 | "The Great Gatsby" by F Scott Fitzgerald is published. | Author | The Great Gatsby (book) | ||||
| 1927/00/00 | American film and stage actress, Lois Moran, and author, F Scott Fitzgerald have a romantic affair. | Life | |||||
| 1927/12/17 | "A Short Trip Home" is published in The Saturday Evening Post. | Author | A Short Trip Home (short story) | ||||
| 1928/04/00 | Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald take a 4th floor apartment at 58 Rue Vaugirard, Paris. Staying here for 5 months, Scott writes stories for American magazines. | Home | |||||
| 1928/07/28 | "The Freshest Boy" is published in The Saturday Evening Post. | Author | The Freshest Boy (short story) | ||||
| 1929/10/19 | "The Swimmers" is published in The Saturday Evening Post. | Author | The Swimmers (short story) | ||||
| 1930/05/22 | After Zelda experiences hallucinations and attempts suicide, Scott takes her to Val-Mont Clinic in Glion in Switzerland where she is examined by Dr Oscar Forel. | Life | |||||
| 1930/06/05 | Scott commits Zelda against her will into Les Rives de Prangins Clinic near Nyon, on Lake Geneva in Switzerland. | Life | |||||
| 1930/08/09 | "The Bridal Party" is published in The Saturday Evening Post. | Author | The Bridal Party (short story) | ||||
| 1930/12/25 | Scott Fitzgerald and his daughter, Frances "Scottie", spend the holidays at Gstaad, a ski resort in Saanen, Canton of Bern, in southwestern Switzerland. | Visitor | Saanen, CH | Canton Bern | |||
| 1931/00/00 | At some point, Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald are regular customers of Chris' Famous Hotdogs. | Guest | Chris' Famous Hotdogs | Montgomery, AL | |||
| 1931/02/21 | "Babylon Revisited" is published in the Saturday Evening Post. | Author | Babylon Revisited (short story) | ||||
| 1931/09/15 | Zelda is released from Les Rives de Prangins Clinic and the Fitzgeralds return home to America aboard the RMS AQUITANIA. | Life | |||||
| 1931/10/00 | Scott, Zelda and their daughter, Scottie, move to a Craftsman-style house near Zelda's parents in Montgomery, Alabama. Scott will later look back on "all the horrors in Montgomery." | Home | Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald House, Montgomery | Montgomery, AL | |||
| 1931/10/00 | Scott Fitzgerald writes a screen adaptation of "Red-Headed Woman" for MGM. "Scott tried to turn the silly book into a tone poem!" - Irving Thalberg according to Anita Loos' autobiography Kiss Hollywood Goodbye | Screenwriter | Red-Headed Woman (film) | ||||
| 1932/00/00 | F Scott Fitzgerald works on "Tender is the Night". | Author | Tender is the Night | Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald House, Montgomery | Montgomery, AL | ||
| 1932/02/00 | On a dreary February day, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald depart from Montgomery Union Station en route to Baltimore, heading for the Phipps Clinic. | Life | Montgomery Union Station | Montgomery, AL | |||
| 1932/02/12 | Zelda Fitzgerald is admitted to the Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic. Her doctor suggest Scott should check himself in also. | Health | Phipps Building | Baltimore, MD | |||
| 1932/03/14 | Scott Fitgerald reads Zelda's manuscript for 'Save Me the Waltz'. "see her build this dubitable career of hers with morsels of living matter chipped out of my mind, my belly, my nervous system and my loins?" FSF | Editor | Save Me the Waltz (book) | Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald House, Montgomery | Montgomery, AL | ||
| 1932/03/25 | THINK NOVEL CAN SAFELY BE PLACED ON YOUR LIST FOR SPRING IT IS ONLY A QUESTION OF CERTAIN SMALL BUT NONE THE LESS NECESSARY REVISIONS ... IN MY OPINION IT IS A FINE NOVEL - FSF wire to Maxwell Perkins | Editor | Save Me the Waltz (book) | Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald House, Montgomery | Montgomery, AL | ||
| 1932/03/28 | ALL MIDDLE SECTION MUST BE RADICALLY REWRITTEN STOP TITLE AND NAME OF AMORY BLAINE CHANGED! STOP ARRIVING BALTIMORE THURSDAY TO CONFER WITH ZELDA - FSF wire to Maxwell Perkins | Editor | Save Me the Waltz (book) | Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald House, Montgomery | Montgomery, AL | ||
| 1932/05/20 | Fitzgerald's rent a house at La Paix, the estate of Bayard Turnbull. The Fitzgerald family moves after a fire, which officials attribute to electrical problems but many people blame Zelda. Site: St Joseph Medical Center, 7601 Osler Dr, Towson | Home | |||||
| 1932/09/00 | Scott Fitzgerald's daughter, Frances "Scottie" Fitzgerald, attends Bryn Mawr Little School. | Parent | Bryn Mawr Little School, Bmore | Baltimore, MD | |||
| 1933/07/00 | After the premiere of "Scandalabra", a play by Zelda and performed by the Vagabond Players, Scott Fitzgerald gathers the cast in the Green Room of the Belvedere and reads the play aloud. Each line is critiqued until the script is abandoned. | Critic | The Belvedere and the Owl Bar | Baltimore, MD | |||
| 1933/08/00 | F Scott Fitzgerald moves to 1307 Park Ave, stays until 1935, Zelda comes for the weekends. Scott finishes 'Tender is The Night' | Home | Tender is the Night | Fitzgerald Bolton Townhouse, Bmore | Baltimore, MD | ||
| 1933/12/00 | At the end of November through December, Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald vacation in Bermuda. | Visitors | |||||
| 1934/04/12 | "Tender is the Night" by F Scott Fitzgerald is published in book form by Charles Scribner's Sons, selling only 13,000 copies to mixed reviews. | Author | Tender is the Night | ||||
| 1935/05/00 | Scott Fitzgerald arrives at the Grove Park Inn to be closer to Zelda in treatment at Highland Hospital. | Visitor | Grove Park Inn | Asheville | |||
| 1935/09/00 | F Scott Fitzgerald and Scottie move into the Cambridge Arms Apartments across from Johns Hopkins University. | Home | Johns Hopkins University's Wolman Hall | Baltimore, MD | |||
| 1936/00/00 | while his wife, Zelda, is treated at the Phipps Psychiatric Clinic, Scott Fitzgerald stays briefly at the Hotel Stafford. | Guest | Stafford Apartments, Bmore | Baltimore, MD | |||
| 1936/07/00 | Scott Fitzgerald begins his stay at the Grove Park Inn while Zelda is in Highland Hospital. | Guest | Grove Park Inn | Asheville | |||
| 1936/12/22 | During the Christmas holidays, Scott throws his daughter Frances "Scottie" a party on the 22nd floor of the Belvedere Hotel in Baltimore. Scott drinks too much, acts silly, totters around and insist on dancing with some of the girls. | Life | The Belvedere and the Owl Bar | Baltimore, MD | |||
| 1937/06/00 | Scott Fitzgerald begins writing scripts for MGM. Employed until December 1938, Scott will earn $85,000 - more than $1,100 per week. | Work | Culver City | California | |||
| 1939/01/00 | F Scott Fitzgerald works briefly on Gone With the Wind | Work | Gone with the Wind (film) | ||||
| 1939/02/00 | F Scott Fitzgerald and Budd Schulberg are fired from the feature film, Winter Carnival, for intoxication after a three-day bender on location at the Winter Carnival, Dartmoor. Schulberg wrote about it in his novel The Disenchanted. | Work | Dartmouth College campus | Hanover, NH | |||
| 1939/12/22 | FSF note to Arnold Gingrich at Esquire: Did you know that last story (Two Old Timers) was the way "The Big Parade" was really made? King Vidor pushed John Gilbert in a hole-believe it or not. | Author of Two Old-Timers | Two Old-Timers (short story) | ||||
| 1939/12/22 | FSF to Esquire: that you wire a hundred advance on really excellent story to reach you Tuesday so I can buy turkey is present Christmas wish of "Pat Hobby Fitzgerald" | Author | Mightier than the Sword (short story) | Turkey | |||
| 1939/12/22 | FSF note to Arnold Gingrich at Esquire: Did you know that last story (Two Old Timers) was the way "The Big Parade" was really made? King Vidor pushed John Gilbert in a hole-believe it or not. | Author of Two Old-Timers | The Big Parade | ||||
| 1940/12/14 | Fitzgerald, Sheilah Graham, Elliot Paul, Sidney Perelman and Laura Perelman play charades in the living room of the Wests' home at 12706 Magnolia Blvd, North Hollywood. | Friend | North Hollywood | California | Death of Fitzgerald, McKenney and West | ||
| 1940/12/20 | As Fitzgerald and Sheilah Graham leave the premiere of "This Thing Called Love" starring Rosalind Russell and Melvyn Douglas, Fitzgerald experiences a dizzy spell and says to Graham, "They think I am drunk, don't they?". | Life | Hollywood Pantages Theatre | Los Angeles | Death of Fitzgerald, McKenney and West | ||
| 1940/12/21 | Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald dies of a heart attack at the home of Sheilah Graham, 1443 N Hayworth Ave, Hollywood, CA. | Died | Hollywood, CA | Death of Fitzgerald, McKenney and West | |||
| 1941/00/00 | The Love of the Last Tycoon - published | Author | The Love of the Last Tycoon | ||||
| 1954/11/18 | The feature film "The Last Time I Saw Paris" is released in the US. Starring Elizabeth Taylor and Van Johnson, it was adapted from Fitzgerald's short story, Babylon Revisited. | Author | Babylon Revisited (short story) | ||||
| 1960/00/00 | "Babylon Revisited and Other Stories" is published by Scribners. | Author | Babylon Revisited and Other Stories (short story collection) | ||||
| 1975/00/00 | The remains of Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald are moved to a family plot at St Mary's Church. | In Memoriam | Third Addition to Rockville and Old St Mary's Church and Cemetery | Rockville |
History
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in St Paul Minnesota, and spent most of his boyhood there and in New York State. In 1913, he entered Princeton University, where his social life and extra-curricular activities limited his academic achievement. He left college in 1917 to join the Army, but was never sent overseas to the war zone. While stationed in Alabama he met Zelda Sayre, to whom he became engaged. During his military service he completed The Romantic Egoist, a novel about a young man's initiation into life, which was rejected for publication. After being demobilized, he found a job with an advertising agency in New York and wrote short stories, only a few of which he was able to market. His prospects appeared so uncertain that Zelda felt obliged to discontinue their engagement. Fitzgerald then returned to his parents' house in St. Paul, where he purposefully rewrote and enlarged his novel. When the new work appeared in 1920 as This Side of Paradise it achieved enormous success and won for its author the reputation of prime spokesman for the glamorous and emancipated youth of the Jazz Age.
Fitzgerald was now able to marry Zelda, and the young couple embarked on a heady period of fame and prosperity during which they sojourned in France and took up residence in various parts of the United States. Besides volumes of short stories, Fitzgerald soon published another novel, The Beautiful and Damned (1922). Three years later he published the novel usually considered to be his finest, The Great Gatsby. This carefully Grafted work was a striking parable of aspiration and desire, and is often considered to be one of the greatest novels in American literature. As Arthur Mizener has written: "The art of this book is nearly perfect. "
Despite his success, Fitzgerald was increasingly troubled by his own tendency to alcoholism and the growing mental illness of his wife. The panic of 1929 changed the nation's literary tastes as radically as its political outlook. When Fitzgerald's brilliant Tender is the Night appeared in 1934, it pleased neither the critics nor the public. Three years later, he went as a film script writer to California, where he died of a heart attack in 1940. His final novel, The Last Tycoon, was published in incomplete form the next year. - NRHP
171 Creative Works by F Scott Fitzgerald »
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| The Mystery of the Raymond Mortgage (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1909/10/00 | |
| Reade, Substitute Right Half (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1910/02/00 | |
| A Debt of Honor (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1910/03/00 | |
| The Room with the Green Blinds (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1911/06/00 | |
| A Luckless Santa Claus (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1912/12/00 | |
| Pain and the Scientist (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1913/00/00 | |
| The Trail of the Duke (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1913/06/00 | |
| Shadow Laurels (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1915/04/00 | |
| The Ordeal (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1915/06/00 | |
| The Debutante (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1917/01/00 | |
| The Spire and the Gargoyle (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1917/02/00 | |
| Tarquin of Cheapside (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1917/04/00 | |
| Babes in the Woods (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1917/05/00 | |
| Sentiment-And the Use of Rouge (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1917/06/00 | |
| The Pierian Springs and the Last Straw (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1917/10/00 | |
| Head and Shoulders (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1919/11/00 | |
| Porcelain and Pink (play) | Author | Play | 1920/01/00 | |
| Benediction (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1920/02/00 | |
| Dalyrimple Goes Wrong (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1920/02/00 | |
| Mister Icky (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1920/03/00 | |
| Myra Meets His Family (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1920/03/20 | |
| This Side of Paradise (book) | Author | Novel | 1920/03/26 | |
| The Camel's Back (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1920/04/24 | |
| The Cut-Glass Bowl (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1920/05/00 | |
| Bernice Bobs Her Hair (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1920/05/01 |
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| The Ice Palace (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1920/05/22 | |
| The Offshore Pirate (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1920/05/29 | |
| The Smilers (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1920/06/00 | |
| The Four Fists (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1920/06/00 | |
| May Day (book) | Author | Mezzobula | 1920/07/00 |
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| Flappers and Philosophers | Author | Short Story Collection | 1920/09/00 | |
| Who's Who - and Why (essay) | Author | Essay | 1920/09/18 | |
| The Jelly-Bean (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1920/10/00 | |
| The Lees of Happiness (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1920/12/12 | |
| Jemina (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1921/01/00 | |
| O Russet Witch! (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1921/02/00 | |
| The Beautiful and Damned | Author | Book | 1922/00/00 | |
| The Popular Girl (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1922/02/11 | |
| Two for a Cent (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1922/04/00 | |
| The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1922/05/27 |
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| The Diamond as Big as the Ritz (book) | Author | Mezzobula | 1922/06/00 |
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| Tales of the Jazz Age (short story collection) | Author | Short Story Collection | 1922/09/22 | |
| Winter Dreams (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1922/12/00 |
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| The Vegetable, or From President to Postman (play) | Author | Play | 1923/00/00 | |
| Dice, Brassknuckles and Guitar (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1923/05/00 | |
| Hot and Cold Blood (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1923/08/00 | |
| Gretchen's Forty Winks (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1924/03/15 | |
| Diamond Dick and the First Law of Woman (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1924/04/00 | |
| How to Live on $36,000 a Year | Author | Article | 1924/04/05 | |
| The Third Casket (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1924/05/31 | |
| Absolution (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1924/06/00 | |
| The Sensible Thing (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1924/07/05 | |
| The Unspeakable Egg (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1924/07/12 | |
| John Jackson's Arcady (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1924/07/26 | |
| The Baby Party (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1925/02/00 | |
| The Pusher-in-the-Face (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1925/02/00 | |
| Love in the Night (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1925/03/14 | |
| The Great Gatsby (book) | Author | Book | 1925/04/10 |
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| One of My Oldest Friends (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1925/09/00 | |
| The Adjuster (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1925/09/00 | |
| A Penny Spent (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1925/10/10 | |
| Not in the Guidebook (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1925/11/00 | |
| All the Sad Young Men (short story collection) | Author | Short Story Collection | 1926/00/00 | |
| The Rich Boy (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1926/01/00 | |
| Presumption (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1926/01/09 | |
| The Adolescent Marriage (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1926/03/06 | |
| How to Waste Material: A Note on My Generation (essay) | Author | Essay | 1926/05/00 | |
| The Dance (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1926/06/00 | |
| Rags Martin-Jones and the Pr-nce of W-les (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1926/07/00 | |
| Your Way and Mine (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1927/05/00 | |
| Jacob's Ladder (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1927/08/20 | |
| The Love Boat (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1927/10/08 | |
| Princeton (FSF essay) | Author | Essay | 1927/12/00 | |
| A Short Trip Home (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1927/12/17 | |
| The Bowl (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1928/01/21 | |
| Magnetism (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1928/03/03 | |
| The Scandal Detectives (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1928/04/28 | |
| A Night at the Fair (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1928/07/21 | |
| The Freshest Boy (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1928/07/28 | |
| He Thinks He's Wonderful (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1928/09/29 | |
| Outside the Cabinet-Maker's (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1928/12/00 | |
| The Captured Shadow (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1928/12/29 | |
| Ten Years in the Advertising Business (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1929/00/00 | |
| The Perfect Life (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1929/01/05 | |
| The Last of the Belles (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1929/03/02 | |
| Forging Ahead (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1929/03/03 | |
| Basil and Cleopatra (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1929/04/27 | |
| The Rough Crossing (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1929/06/08 | |
| Majesty (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1929/07/13 | |
| At Your Age (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1929/08/17 | |
| The Swimmers (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1929/10/19 | |
| Two Wrongs (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1930/01/18 | |
| First Blood (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1930/04/05 | |
| A Nice Quiet Place (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1930/05/31 | |
| The Bridal Party (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1930/08/09 |
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| A Woman with a Past (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1930/09/06 | |
| One Trip Abroad (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1930/10/11 | |
| A Snobbish Story (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1930/11/29 | |
| The Hotel Child (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1931/01/31 | |
| Babylon Revisited (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1931/02/21 |
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| Indecision (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1931/05/16 | |
| A New Leaf (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1931/07/04 | |
| Emotional Bankruptcy (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1931/08/15 | |
| Between Three and Four (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1931/09/05 | |
| A Change of Class (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1931/09/26 | |
| A Freeze-Out (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1931/12/19 | |
| Six of One (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1932/02/00 | |
| Diagnosis (Fitzgerald short story) | Author | Short Story | 1932/02/20 | |
| Flight and Pursuit (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1932/05/14 | |
| Family in the Wind (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1932/06/04 | |
| The Rubber Check (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1932/08/06 | |
| What a Handsome Pair! (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1932/08/27 | |
| Crazy Sunday (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1932/10/00 | |
| One Interne (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1932/11/05 | |
| One Hundred False Starts (essay) | Author | Essay | 1933/03/04 | |
| On Schedule (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1933/03/18 | |
| More Than Just a House (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1933/06/24 | |
| Tender is the Night | Author | Book | 1934/04/12 |
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| Taps at Reveille (short story collection) | Author | Short Story Collection | 1935/00/00 | |
| The Fiend (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1935/01/00 | |
| The Night at Chancellorsville (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1935/02/00 | |
| Author's House (essay) | Author | Essay | 1936/07/01 | |
| Afternoon of an Author (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1936/08/00 | |
| I Didn't Get Over (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1936/10/00 | |
| An Alcoholic Case (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1937/02/00 | |
| The Long Way Out (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1937/09/00 | |
| Financing Finnegan (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1938/01/00 | |
| Design in Plaster (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1939/11/00 | |
| The Lost Decade (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1939/12/00 |
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| Mightier than the Sword (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1939/12/22 | |
| Pat Hobby's Christmas Wish (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1940/01/01 | |
| A Man in the Way (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1940/02/00 | |
| Boil Some Water-Lots of It' (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1940/03/00 | |
| Teamed with Genius (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1940/04/00 | |
| Pat Hobby and Orson Welles (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1940/05/00 | |
| Pat Hobby's Secret (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1940/06/00 | |
| The End of Hate (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1940/06/22 | |
| Pat Hobby, Putative Father (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1940/07/00 | |
| The Homes of the Stars (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1940/08/00 | |
| Pat Hobby Does His Bit (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1940/09/00 | |
| Pat Hobby's Preview (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1940/10/00 | |
| No Harm Trying (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1940/11/00 | |
| A Patriotic Short (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1940/12/00 | |
| The Love of the Last Tycoon | Author | Book | 1941/00/00 | |
| On the Trail of Pat Hobby (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1941/01/00 | |
| On an Ocean Wave (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1941/02/00 | |
| Fun in an Artist's Studio (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1941/02/00 | |
| Two Old-Timers (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1941/03/00 | |
| The Pat Hobby Stories (short story collection) | Author | Short Story Collection | 1941/05/00 | |
| Pat Hobby's College Days (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1941/05/00 | |
| The Woman from Twenty-One (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1941/06/00 | |
| Three Hours Between Planes (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1941/07/00 | |
| Gods of Darkness (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1941/11/00 | |
| The Crack-Up (essays) | Author | Collection of Essays | 1945/00/00 | |
| The Broadcast We Almost Heard Last September (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1947/00/00 | |
| News of Paris - Fifteen Years Ago (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1947/12/00 | |
| The World's Fair (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1948/00/00 | |
| Discard (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1948/01/00 | |
| Last Kiss (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1949/04/16 | |
| That Kind of Party (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1951/00/00 | |
| Afternoon of an Author: A Selection of Uncollected Stories and Essays | Author | Short Story Collection | 1957/00/00 | |
| Babylon Revisited and Other Stories (short story collection) | Author | Short Story Collection | 1960/00/00 | |
| Dearly Beloved (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1969/00/00 | |
| Lo, the Poor Peacock (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1971/09/00 | |
| The Basil and Josephine Stories (short story collection) | Author | Short Story Collection | 1973/00/00 | |
| The Price Was High: Fifty Uncollected Stories (short story collection) | Author | Short Story Collection | 1979/00/00 | |
| On Your Own (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1979/01/30 | |
| A Full Life (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1988/00/00 | |
| The Short Stories of F Scott Fitzgerald | Author | Short Story Collection | 1989/00/00 | |
| Temperature (short story) | Author | Short Story | 2015/07/00 | |
| I'd Die For You and Other Lost Stories (short story collection) | Author | Short Story Collection | 2017/04/00 |
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in St Paul Minnesota, and spent most of his boyhood there and in New York State. In 1913, he entered Princeton University, where his social life and extra-curricular activities limited his academic achievement. He left college in 1917 to join the Army, but was never sent overseas to the war zone. While stationed in Alabama he met Zelda Sayre, to whom he became engaged. During his military service he completed The Romantic Egoist, a novel about a young man's initiation into life, which was rejected for publication. After being demobilized, he found a job with an advertising agency in New York and wrote short stories, only a few of which he was able to market. His prospects appeared so uncertain that Zelda felt obliged to discontinue their engagement. Fitzgerald then returned to his parents' house in St. Paul, where he purposefully rewrote and enlarged his novel. When the new work appeared in 1920 as This Side of Paradise it achieved enormous success and won for its author the reputation of prime spokesman for the glamorous and emancipated youth of the Jazz Age.
Fitzgerald was now able to marry Zelda, and the young couple embarked on a heady period of fame and prosperity during which they sojourned in France and took up residence in various parts of the United States. Besides volumes of short stories, Fitzgerald soon published another novel, The Beautiful and Damned (1922). Three years later he published the novel usually considered to be his finest, The Great Gatsby. This carefully Grafted work was a striking parable of aspiration and desire, and is often considered to be one of the greatest novels in American literature. As Arthur Mizener has written: "The art of this book is nearly perfect. "
Despite his success, Fitzgerald was increasingly troubled by his own tendency to alcoholism and the growing mental illness of his wife. The panic of 1929 changed the nation's literary tastes as radically as its political outlook. When Fitzgerald's brilliant Tender is the Night appeared in 1934, it pleased neither the critics nor the public. Three years later, he went as a film script writer to California, where he died of a heart attack in 1940. His final novel, The Last Tycoon, was published in incomplete form the next year. - NRHP
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