F. Scott Fitzgerald F. Scott Fitzgerald Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American fiction writer, whose works helped to illustrate the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age. While he achieved popular success, fame, and fortune in his lifetime, he did not receive much critical acclaim until after his death. Perhaps the most notable member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s, Fitzgerald is now widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. He finished four novels: "This Side of Paradise", "The Beautiful and Damned", "The Great Gatsby", and "Tender Is
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