F. Scott Fitzgerald bibliography F. Scott Fitzgerald bibliography Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s. He finished four novels: "This Side of Paradise", "The Beautiful and Damned", "The Great Gatsby" (his most famous), and "Tender Is the Night". A fifth, unfinished novel, "The Last Tycoon", was published posthumously. Fitzgerald also wrote many short stories
F. Scott Fitzgerald during this period working on his fifth and final novel, "The Love of the Last Tycoon", published posthumously as "The Last Tycoon", based on film executive Irving Thalberg. In 1939, MGM terminated the contract, and Fitzgerald became a freelance screenwriter. During his work on "Winter Carnival", Fitzgerald went on an alcoholic binge and was treated by New York psychiatrist Richard H. Hoffmann. From 1939 until his death in 1940, Fitzgerald mocked himself as a Hollywood hack through the character of Pat Hobby in a sequence of 17 short stories, later collected as "The Pat Hobby Stories", which garnered many positive