The Last Tycoon Summary
F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The Last Tycoon Summary

The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a novel about a Hollywood producer who finds himself not only struggling to find love and success in a world of cut-throats, but who is in the ultimate struggle for his own life. The Last Tycoon is Fitzgerald's final work, a novel he was working on at the time of his death. The novel was published after editing by fellow writer and friend...

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F. Scott Fitzgerald Biographies (6)

F . Scott Fitzgerald

6,442 words, approx. 22 pages

F. Scott Fitzgerald died on the afternoon of December 21, 1940, suffering a fatal heart attack as he was finishing a chocolate bar--one of his placebos for the alcohol that had ravaged both his talent... Read more

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

1,285 words, approx. 5 pages

The American author Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896-1940), a legendary figure of the 1920s, was a scrupulous artist, a graceful stylist, and an exceptional craftsman. His tragic life was an ironic ... Read more

F(rancis) Scott (Key) Fitzgerald

12,215 words, approx. 41 pages

An air of transience pervades the biographies of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald and slips into their writing. This lack of permanence is a key to understanding their relationship with ... Read more

F(rancis) Scott (Key) Fitzgerald

9,361 words, approx. 32 pages

F. Scott Fitzgerald was a writer very much of his own time. As Malcolm Cowley once put it, he lived in a room full of clocks and calendars. The years ticked away while he noted the songs, the shows, ... Read more

F(rancis) Scott (Key) Fitzgerald

12,326 words, approx. 42 pages

Although for the general reader F. Scott Fitzgerald 's fame rests primarily on one novel, The Great Gatsby (1925), his creative life, from youth to early death, found full expression in some 160 shor... Read more

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

11,000 words, approx. 37 pages

Biography EssayF. Scott Fitzgerald was a writer very much of his own time. As Malcolm Cowley once put it, he lived in a room full of clocks and calendars. The years ticked away while he noted the song... Read more