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F. Scott Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

September 24, 1896- December 21, 1940

Parents: Edward Fitzgerald & Molly McQuillan

Spouse: Zelda Fitzgerald (m. 1920-1940)

Children: Frances Scott "Scottie" Fitzgerald (1921-1986)

Age: 44

Nationality: American

Genre: Tragedy

Literary Era: Modernism

Info.

Works

  • St. Paul Plays (1914)

  • The Apprentice Fiction (1917)

  • Spires and Gargoyles (1919)

  • Benediction (1920)

  • Bernice Bobs Her Hair (1920)

  • Flappers and Philosophers (1920)

  • Head and Shoulders (1920)

  • May Day (1920)

  • Mr. Icky & Porcelain and Pink

  • Myra Meets His Family (1920)

  • The Camel's Back (1920)

  • The Four Fists (1920)

  • The Jelly-Bean (1920)

  • The Lees of Happiness (1920)

  • The Short Stories (1920)

  • This Side of Paradise (1920)

  • Jemina & Tarquin of Cheapside (1921)

  • Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)

  • The Beautiful and Damned (1922)

  • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (1922)

  • The Diamond as Big as the Ritz (1922)

  • Gretchen's Forty Winks (1924)

  • The Best Early Stories (1924)

  • The Cruise of the Rolling Junk (1924)

  • Love in the Night (1925)

  • All the Sad Young Men (1926)

  • The Great Gatsby (1926)

  • The Rich Boy (1926)

  • Magnetism (1928)

  • The Basil and Josephine Stories (1928)

  • Babylon Revisited (1931)

  • The St. Paul Stories (1931)

  • Tender is the Night (1934)

  • Taps at Reveille (1935)

  • The Fantasy and Mystery Stories (1935)

  • The Night at Chancellorsville (1935)

  • The Crack-Up (1936)

  • Poems (1940)

  • The Pat Hobby Stories (1940)

  • The Last Tycoon (1941)

  • Lost Decade and Other Stories (1968)

  • The Notebooks of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1978)

  • The Price Was High (1979)

  • A Life in Letters (1980)

  • Afternoon of an Author (1987)

  • Trimalchio (2000)

  • The Popular GIrl (2006)

  • A Short Autobiography (2011)

  • On Booze (2011)

  • The Thoughtbook of F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013)

  • The Love Boat (2015)

  • I'd DIe For You (2017)

Bio.

Here you talk about them as a kid.

And as a teenager.

Then as an adult.

Then as a successful person.

Themes

  • Materialism (excess) and The American Dream

  • Ambition and Loss

  • Discipline versus Self-Indulgence

  • Love and Romance

  • Wealth and Class

  • Dysfunctional Relationships

  • Jazz and Booze (if you know what I mean)

Cool Quotes

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

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