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Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940), widely known simply as Scott Fitzgerald, [1] was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age , a term he popularized in his short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age .
College of One: The Story of How F. Scott Fitzgerald Educated the Woman He Loved (1967) Confessions of a Hollywood Columnist (1969) Garden of Allah (Crown, 1969) [17] A State of Heat (1972, memoir) How to Marry Super Rich: Or, Love, Money and the Morning After (1974) For Richer, for Poorer (1975) The Real F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thirty-Five Years ...
Frances Scott "Scottie" Fitzgerald (October 26, 1921 – June 18, 1986) was an American writer and journalist and the only child of novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald. She matriculated from Vassar College and worked for The Washington Post , The New Yorker , and other publications. [ 1 ]
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is a short story about a man who ages in reverse, from senescence to infancy, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was first published in Collier's Magazine on May 27, 1922, with the cover and illustrations by James Montgomery Flagg.
"Myra Meets His Family" is a work of short fiction by F. Scott Fitzgerald first appearing in The Saturday Evening Post on March 20, 1920. The story was collected in The Price Was High: Fifty Uncollected Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1979) by Harcourt, Brace & Company [1] [2] "Myra Meets His Family" was among the first stories accepted by The Saturday Evening Post for publication. [3]
Tender Is the Night is the fourth and final novel completed by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald.Set in French Riviera during the twilight of the Jazz Age, the 1934 novel chronicles the rise and fall of Dick Diver, a promising young psychiatrist, and his wife, Nicole, who is one of his patients.
Although the book neither became one of the ten best-selling novels of the year nor made him wealthy, [6] [7] F. Scott Fitzgerald became a household name overnight. [8] [9] His newfound fame enabled him to earn higher rates for his short stories, [10] and his improved financial prospects persuaded his fiancée Zelda Sayre to marry him. [11]
The story centers on a young couple, John and Edith Andros. They are the parents of Ede, their two-and-half-year-old daughter. Although the prospect of having a child to continue his name and livelihood appeals to the father, the day-to-day realities soon irritate him. Early on it is apparent this creates discord among the couple.