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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 .
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald.Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with Jay Gatsby, the mysterious millionaire with an obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.
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After Fitzgerald’s death in 1940, six more volumes of as yet uncollected short fiction appeared: The Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1951), Afternoon of an Author (1957), The Pat Hobby Stories (1962), The Apprenticeship Fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1965), The Basil and Josephine Stories (1973), and Bits of Paradise (1974). [10] [11] [12]
The Apprentice Fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1965) "Reade, Substitute Right Half" St. Paul Academy Now and Then (Feb 1910) "A Debt of Honor" St. Paul Academy Now and Then (March 1910) "The Room with the Green Blinds" St. Paul Academy Now and Then (June 1911) "A Luckless Santa Claus" Newman News (Dec 24, 1912) "Pain and the Scientist" Newman ...
The Beautiful and Damned is a 1922 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. [1] Set in New York City, the novel's plot follows a young artist Anthony Patch and his flapper wife Gloria Gilbert who become "wrecked on the shoals of dissipation" while partying to excess at the dawn of the hedonistic Jazz Age.
The book is more like a magazine than a collection of stories by one man, arranged by an editor to suit all tastes and meant to be thrown away after reading." [13] Hawthorne closes with an upbeat assessment of Fitzgerald's potential as a fiction writer: "These stories are announced as beginning in the writer's second manner.
"Bernice Bobs Her Hair" is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, first published in May 1920 in The Saturday Evening Post. [2] It was Fitzgerald's first short story to achieve national prominence. [3] The original publication featured interior illustrations by May Wilson Preston. [4]