The Fitzgeralds rent a house on Compo Road , Westport, Connecticut, where they spend a riotous summer entertaining their New York friends, including the influential American literary critic, George Jean Nathan , whose flirtations with Zelda annoyed Scott. Scott begins writing The Beautiful and Damned.

The publication of May Day in The Smart Set. Zelda gets homesick. They drive to Montgomery and return to Westport by train.

Zelda's parents visit Westport. The visit was a disaster from start to finish with two of Scott's drunken friends deciding to pay a visit and stay over at the same time. Judge and Mrs Sayre decided to leave earlier than planned.

Scott and Zelda drive their unreliable second hand Marmon to Montgomery. This trip becomes the basis for The Cruise Of The Rolling Junk (a three part humorous travel article published in Motor February, March, April 1924). By mid August they return to Westport.

The publication of Flappers and Philosophers, Scott's first collection of short stories. Scott creates the word "Flapper" to define "girls with an extraordinary talent for living. By November 1922 there were 6 printings, totalling 15,325 copies. (In a letter to Maxwell Perkins dated May 15 1931 Scott also claims credit for naming "The Jazz age" stating, "I claim credit for naming it.........it extended from the suppression of the riots from May Day 1919 to the crash of the Stock Market in 1929-almost exactly one decade").

The Fitzgeralds take an apartment at 38 West 59th Street, New York City, near the Plaza Hotel - a hang out for literary and theatre people. They cultivate friendships with many like-minded types including actress Lillian Gish who was to later quote about Zelda and Scott, "They didn't make the 20's, they were the 20's."