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  1. Jun 1, 2010 · F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was an American writer, whose books helped defined the Jazz Age. He is best known for his novel "The Great Gatsby" (1925), considered a masterpiece. He was...

  2. Best known for The Great Gatsby (1925) and Tender Is the Night (1934)—two keystones of modernist fictionFrancis Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was the poet laureate of the “Jazz Age,” a term he popularized to convey the post-World War I era’s newfound prosperity, consumerism, and shifting sexual mores.

  3. Aug 31, 2005 · Get to know phenomenal writer, F. Scott Fitzgerald, one of the most prominent American writers in the 20th-century.

  4. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896, and named after his ancestor Francis Scott Key, the writer of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Fitzgerald was raised in St. Paul, Minnesota. Though an intelligent child, he did poorly in school and was sent to a New Jersey boarding school in 1911.

  5. www.encyclopedia.com › american-literature-biographies › f-scott-fitzgeraldF Scott Fitzgerald | Encyclopedia.com

    May 23, 2018 · Died December 21, 1940 ( Los Angeles, California) Novelist and short story writer. "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." F. Scott Fitzgerald was probably the most gifted and insightful literary chronicler of the Roaring Twenties.

  6. North American Literatures. The quick rise to fame in the 1920s and the sad, slow fall into drunkenness have often overshadowed F. Scott Fitzgerald's remarkable literary achievements. By age thirty he had written three novels, three volumes of short stories, and a play to become the leading writer of his generation.

  7. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. F. Scott Fitzgerald was a 20th-century American short-story writer and novelist. Although he completed four novels and more than 150 short stories in his lifetime, he is perhaps best remembered for his third novel, The Great Gatsby (1925).

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