Meet the Author
F. Scott Fitzgerald
American · 1896–1940 · Novelist & short-story writer
The lyric poet of the Jazz Age who saw the rot inside the American Dream.
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Why read F. Scott Fitzgerald?
Fitzgerald wrote about glittering wealth, doomed longing, and people reinventing themselves in pursuit of something that recedes as they reach for it. His prose is gorgeous and elegiac, mourning the parties even as they rage. Read him for the beautiful sadness of ambition, and for sentences that sound like the last light of summer.
A life in six dates
- 1896Born in St. Paul, Minnesota
- 1920'This Side of Paradise' makes him a sensation
- 1925'The Great Gatsby' published
- 1934'Tender Is the Night' published
- 1940Dies in Hollywood at 44
Themes across the collection
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Context that actually matters
The Jazz AgeFitzgerald named and defined the 1920s, its excess, its music, and its underlying emptiness.
The American DreamHis work interrogates the promise of self-invention and reveals the class barriers it can't cross.
Influence
Echoes of F. Scott Fitzgerald run through Raymond Carver, J. D. Salinger, among many others.