F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"Norman Mailer, Truman Capote, William Styron — perhaps half-a-dozen others approaching or just past thirty — have numerous admirers, but it is clear that their impact on young intellectuals has not been remotely comparable to that made on a previous generation by Fitzgerald." -- "Born 1930: The Unlost Generation" by Caroline Bird, Harper's Bazaar, Feb. 1957 |
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Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21,1940) was an American author of novels and short stories best-known for the Jazz Age classic The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald was of the self-styled "Lost Generation," Americans born in the 1890s who came of age during World War I. He finished four novels, left a fifth unfinished, and wrote dozens of short stories that treat themes of youth, despair, and age.
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Quotations
"For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder."
Novels
- This Side of Paradise (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922)
- The Beautiful and Damned (New York: Scribner, 1922)
- The Great Gatsby (New York: Scribner, 1925)
- Tender Is the Night (New York: Scribner, 1934)
- The Last Tycoon – originally The Love of the Last Tycoon – (New York: Scribners, published posthumously, 1942)
Other works
Short Story Collections
- Flappers and Philosophers (Short Story Collection, 1920)
- Tales of the Jazz Age (Short Story Collection, 1922)
- All the Sad Young Men (Short Story Collection, 1926)
- Taps at Reveille (Short Story Collection, 1935)
- Babylon Revisited and Other Stories (Short Story Collection, 1960)
- The Pat Hobby Stories (Short Story Collection, 1962)
- The Basil and Josephine Stories (Short Story Collection, 1973)
- The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Short Story Collection, 1989)
Short Stories
- Bernice Bobs Her Hair (Short Story, 1920)
- Head and Shoulders (Short Story, 1920)
- The Ice Palace (Short Story, 1920)
- May Day (Novelette, 1920)
- The Offshore Pirate (Short Story, 1920)
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Short Story, 1921)
- The Diamond as Big as the Ritz (Novella, 1922)
- Winter Dreams (Short Story, 1922)
- Dice, Brassknuckles & Guitar (Short Story, 1923)
- The Freshest Boy (Short Story, 1928)
- "A New Leaf" (Short Story, 1931)
- Babylon Revisited (Short story, 1931)
- Crazy Sunday (Short Story, 1932)
- The Fiend (Short Story, 1935)
- The Bridal Party (Short Story)
- The Baby Party (Short Story)
Other
- The Vegetable, or From President to Postman (play, 1923)
- The Crack-Up (essays, 1945)
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