F. Scott Fitzgerald Born September 24, 1896 (St. Paul, Minnesota)Died December 21, 1940 (Los Angeles, California) Novelist and short story writer F. Scott Fitzgerald was probably the most gifted and insightful literary chronicler of the Roaring...

6f. Scott Fitzgerald Excerpt from The Great GatsbyPublished in 1925 Although F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 appear often in anthologies. Faulkner received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949. He lived quietly in Oxford until his death in 1962. For More...

Perhaps because so much of his writing is autobiographical, F. Scott Fitzgerald is as famous for his personal life as he is for his writing. In his career as a writer, Fitzgerald proved to be gifted in a number of forms—he excelled as a...

(born Sept. 24, 1896, St. Paul, Minn., U.S.—died Dec. 21, 1940, Hollywood, Calif.) American short-story writer and novelist famous for his depictions of the Jazz Age (the 1920s), his most brilliant novel being The Great Gatsby (1925). His private...

(born Sept. 24, 1896, St. Paul, Minn., U.S.—died Dec. 21, 1940, Hollywood, Calif.) U.S. novelist and short-story writer. Fitzgerald attended Princeton University but dropped out with bad grades. In 1920 he married Zelda Sayre (1900–48),...

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21,1940) was an American writer of novels and short stories, whose works have been seen as evocative of the Jazz Age, a term he himself allegedly coined. He is regarded as one of the greatest...