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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 .
In a letter to Maxwell Perkins, Fitzgerald stated that it was originally intended to be the prologue of his later novel The Great Gatsby, but that it "interrupted with the neatness of the plan". [4] In 1934, Fitzgerald wrote in a letter to a fan that the story was intended to show Gatsby's early life, but was cut to preserve his "sense of mystery".
The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald is a compilation of 43 short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli and published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1989. It begins with a foreword by Charles Scribner II and a preface written by Bruccoli, after which the stories follow in chronological order of publication.
"Winter Dreams" is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald first published in Metropolitan magazine in December 1922 and collected in All the Sad Young Men in 1926. [1] The plot concerns the attempts by a young Midwestern man to win the affection of an upper-class socialite.
Crazy Sunday" is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, originally published in the October 1932 issue of American Mercury. Fitzgerald's story is set in the brutal life of the great studios of 1930s Hollywood, with their flocks of actors, writers and directors seething with interpersonal and sexual politics. Although less than 6,400 words, it ...
Basil Duke Lee, who was a fictionalized version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's younger self. [3] Scott draws from his own experiences as a child and an adolescent. [4] On the hand, Josephine, was a fictional character based on real life stories of a young woman whom allegedly, Scott had been in love with in his youth. [5] In various correspondences ...
Fitzgerald was paid $400 for each story. [9] [10] Fitzgerald's short fiction became identified with the Post in the following years, to whom he would sell sixty-five of his stories—"40 percent of his output." [9] Literary critic and biographer Matthew J. Bruccoli notes that "during his lifetime, Fitzgerald was far better known and more widely ...
"May Day" is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald published in The Smart Set in the July 1920 issue. [2] The story was included in his 1922 short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age. [3] The plot follows a blithe coterie of privileged Yale alumni who meet for a social dance during the May Day riots of 1919.