F. Scott Fitzgerald
Capturing the glamour and disillusionment of the Jazz Age in prose of extraordinary beauty.
Biography
F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American novelist and short story writer born in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1896. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century and the defining voice of the Jazz Age. The Great Gatsby, published in 1925, is now considered one of the greatest novels in American literature, though it achieved only modest success during his lifetime. Fitzgerald died in 1940 at age 44, leaving behind a small but profoundly influential body of work.
Best Starting Book
The Great Gatsby
At under 200 pages, it delivers the full power of Fitzgerald's prose and vision β a novel you can read in an afternoon and think about for a lifetime.
Reading Order
The Great Gatsby
A perfect, concise novel β Fitzgerald's prose at its most luminous, telling the quintessential American story.
Tender Is the Night
His most personal and ambitious novel, drawing on his own troubled marriage to explore wealth, love, and decline.
This Side of Paradise
His electrifying debut that made him famous overnight β captures the reckless energy of youth and postwar America.
The Beautiful and Damned
A darker, more mature work that foreshadows the themes of excess and decay he would perfect in Gatsby.
The Last Tycoon
His unfinished final novel about Hollywood β even incomplete, it shows a writer reaching new heights.