The publication of Tales of the Jazz Age, Scott's second collection of short stories.

The Fitzgeralds rent a house at 6 Gateway Drive in Great Neck, Long Island for $300 per month. They buy a second hand Rolls Royce. Scott strikes up a friendship with sportswriter, humorist and short story writer Ring Lardner who Scott called his "private drunkard." The Great Gatsby is conceived. Parties at Great Neck are legendary with house rules such as "Visitors are requested not to break down the doors in search of liquor, even when authorized to do so by the host and hostess" and "Weekend guests are respectfully notified that invitations to stay over Monday, issued by the host and hostess during the small hours of Sunday morning, must not be taken seriously." Scott's drinking binges start to get violent with Zelda sometimes having to take refuge with the Lardners who lived opposite.

The publication of Winter Dreams in Metropolitan Magazine.

The publication of Scott's play, The Vegetable .

The Vegetable fails at tryout at the Apollo Theatre in Atlantic City, New Jersey with people walking out after the second act on the first night.

Between them, Scott and Zelda spend $36,000 during the year. Scott's income for the year was $28,759.78

Second trip to Europe. Scott and Zelda decide they could live more cheaply on the Riviera and the Fitzgerald family sail to Europe on the Minnewaska on May 3. They visit Paris, staying at Hotel des Deux Mondes where Zelda bathes Scottie in the bidet by mistake. After a brief stay at the Grimm's Park Hotel in Hyeres where they are disgusted with the goat's milk served to them, and are fed up with the invalids complaining, they move on to the Ruhl in Nice, then on to St Raphael.