Resume

Resume of F. Scott Fitzgerald

EDUCATION
· St. Paul Academy
· Newman School (1911-1913)
· Princeton University

Works:
·1909: “The Mystery of the Raymond Mortgage” published in St.Paul’s Academy’s Now and Then
·1911-1913: Newman School: writes and produces four plays and publishes three stories in the Newman School News before graduation in 1913
·1913: Princeton University: writes books and lyrics for a Triangle Club show, contributes lyrics to two others
·1914-1918: Fitzgerald’s stories, plays, and poems published in Nassau Literary Magazine and Princeton Tiger
·March 26, 1920: This Side of Paradise, 1st novel, published by Scribners
·September 1920: Flapper and Philosophers, 1st short-story collection is published
·March 1922: The Beautiful and the Damned, published
·September 1922: 2nd collection of stories published, Tales of the Jazz Age
·April 1923: The Vegetable, Fitzgerald’s play is published; in November it fails in a try out production in Atlantic City, New Jersey
·April 10, 1925: The Great Gatsby is published by Scribners
·February 1926: All the Sad Young Men, 3rd collection of stories published
·March 1935: Taps at Reveille: 4th Collection of short stories is published
·1943: Tender is Night is published

EXPERIENCE
·Second Lieutenant->1917 – Left Princeton University, reports to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
·Writer
·1919: Advertisizing Agency in New York City
·1937: goes to Hollywood, California alone with a 6-month Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract at $1,000 a week
·1938: receives his only screen credit for adapting Three Comrades (after which his contract is renewed for a year at $1,250 a week)
·1939: begins working on his Hollywood novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon, writes greater than half of his working draft before he dies
·December 21, 1940: died of a heart attack in the movie columnist Sheilah Graham’s apartment