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 in various editions such as "Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald", ed. Jackson R. Bryer and Cathy W. Banks (2002); "Correspondence of F. Scott Fitzgerald", ed. Matthew Bruccoli and Margaret Duggan (1980), and "F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Life in Letters", ed. Matthew Bruccoli (1994). A collection of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's scrapbooks of photographs and reviews was compiled by Bruccoli and F. Scott and Zelda's daughter Frances "Scottie" Fitzgerald (as Scottie Fitzgerald Smith) in a book "The Romantic Egoists" (1976). A musical about the lives of Fitzgerald and wife Zelda Fitzgerald was