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
Zelda Fitzgerald the nature of mental illness," based on literary analysis of Zelda's published and unpublished work as well as her husband's. After the success of Milford's biography, scholars and critics began to look at Zelda's work in a new light. In a 1968 edition of "Save Me the Waltz," F. Scott Fitzgerald scholar Matthew Bruccoli wrote, ""Save Me the Waltz" is worth reading partly because anything that illuminates the career of F. Scott Fitzgerald is worth reading—and because it is the only published novel of a brave and talented woman who is remembered for her defeats." But as "Save Me the