James F. Fitzgerald in March 1975. James F. Fitzgerald James Francis Fitzgerald (October 12, 1895 – March 1975) was an American politician from New York. He was born on October 12, 1895, in Long Island City, which was then a city in Queens County, and is now a neighborhood in the Borough of Queens in New York City. He attended St. Mary's Parochial School. Fitzgerald was a member of the New York State Senate (5th D.) from 1949 to 1952, sitting in the 167th and 168th New York State Legislatures. In November 1952, he ran for re-election, but was defeated by Republican Milton
F. Scott Fitzgerald Fitzgerald, called "The Great Gatsby" "the most nourishing novel [he] read ... a miracle of talent ... a triumph of technique." It was written in an editorial in "The New York Times" after his death that Fitzgerald "was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a generation ... He might have interpreted them and even guided them, as in their middle years they saw a different and nobler freedom threatened with destruction." Into the 21st century, millions of copies of "The Great Gatsby" and his other works have been sold, and "Gatsby", a