Essays on Scott Fitzgerald

September 24, 1896

December 21, 1940

Novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and short story writer

• The Great Gatsby (1925)
• Tender Is the Night (1934)

September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American novelist, essayist, short story writer, and screenwriter. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age — a term he popularized.

“Tales of the Jazz Age”, “Tender Is the Night”, “The Beautiful and Damned”, “The Crack-Up”, “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz”, “The Great Gatsby”, “The Last Tycoon”, “This Side of Paradise”.

Fitzgerald is famous for his depictions of the Jazz Age (the 1920s), especially in his novel The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald conveyed in The Great Gatsby the sense of hope America promised to its youth and the disappointment its youth felt when America failed to deliver. This is a common theme in Fitzgerald’s work. Other common themes in his work include society and class, wealth and materialism, and romantic idealism.

As one of the leading authorial voices of the Jazz Age, Fitzgerald's literary style influenced a number of contemporary and future writers.[399] As early as 1922, critic John V. A. Weaver noted that Fitzgerald's literary influence was already "so great that it cannot be estimated."

“Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
“Human sympathy has its limits.”
“You’ll understand why storms are named after people.”