F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940) was an American writer, best known for The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night, This Side of Paradise, and The Beautiful and Damned.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald SocietyWelcome to the F. Scott Fitzgerald Society, an international forum for the promotion, understanding and enjoyment of the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald. The purpose of this website is to promote study of the life and work of F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: HistoryAmerican writer F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) rose to prominence as a chronicler of the jazz age.
Research & Reference
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: Credo ReferenceA Credo Reference landing page on F. Scott Fitzgerald. This page includes links to reference works, journal articles, and a mind map.
Streaming Media
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F. Scott Fitzgerald (A Concise Biography)This overview of the biography and writing of F. Scott Fitzgerald from the Famous Authors series traces Fitzgerald’s life and influences—from his birth in St. Paul, Minnesota, to his university days at Princeton, literary celebrity, and frivolity in New York; to his status as social purveyor of modernists in Paris; to his tumultuous marriage to the talented but troubled Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald and following alcoholic spiral.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: Famous People, Incredible LivesF. Scott Fitzgerald lived from 1896-1940. The writer achieved success and public recognition in the 1920s. In this Film Ideas video, explore Fitzgerald's early life, education, romantic life, novels, social life, and literary success.
Author's Works & Perspectives
The Great Gatsby
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Flappers and Philosophers
Flappers and Philosophers was F. Scott Fitzgerald's initial encore - his first collection of short fiction, published in 1920 to capitalize on the success of This Side of Paradise, the novel that had made him famous at the age of twenty-three. Some of his best early stories are included here: 'The Offshore Pirate', 'Bernice Bobs Her Hair', 'The Ice Palace' and 'Benediction'. In these narratives Fitzgerald presented his prototypical Jazz-Age heroines, beautiful and wilful young women who later became trademarks of his fiction. Part of the authoritative Cambridge Edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald, this volume now appears in paperback for the first time. It offers detailed explanatory notes, a record of variants and appendices tracing the composition and publication history of the stories.
The Love of the Last Tycoon
Even in its incomplete form The Love of The Last Tycoon has achieved a reputation as the best novel about Hollywood. When F. Scott Fitzgerald died in 1940 he had written seventeen of thirty projected episodes. In 1941 the 'unfinished novel' was published in a text for general readers by Edmund Wilson under the title The Last Tycoon. For more than fifty years this edition, which is not true to the original work in progress, has been the only one available. This critical edition of The Love of The Last Tycoon, first published in 1994, utilises Fitzgerald's manuscript drafts, revised typescipts, and working notes to establish the first authoritative text of the work. The volume includes a detailed history of the gestation, composition, and publication of the novel; full textual apparatus with editorial notes; fascimiles of the drafts; and explanatory notes on topical allusions and historical references for contemporary readers. The reconstruction of Fitzgerald's plan for the thirteen unwritten episodes is particularly useful. F. Scott Fitzgerald's incomplete masterpiece is restored its 1940 state, and thus made fully accessible to a cross-section of readers.