F. Scott Fitzgerald
Selected Bibliography
This Side of Paradise (1920)
Flappers and Philosophers (1920)
The Beautiful and the Damned (1922)
Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)
The Great Gatsby (1925)
All the Sad Young Men (1926)
Tender is the Night (1934)
Taps at Reveille (1935)
The Last Tycoon (1941)
F. Scott Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896-December 21, 1940) went to grade school in St. Paul, Minnesota, and attended Princeton for a time before he was commissioned as a second lieutenant for the army in 1917. While living in St. Paul in 1919, he wrote This Side of Paradise, which was his first successful novel. He married Zelda Sayre a week after This Side of Paradise book was published in 1920. The Fitzgeralds lived a glamorous but expensive lifestyle which inspired much of Fitzgerald’s fiction. His alcoholism contributed to an early death at age forty-four.
Fitzgerald drew on his St. Paul experiences and his many misfortunes in life as material for his writing. Before his death in 1940, he wrote four novels, including The Great Gatsby, which is one of his most famous works, and over 150 short stories. He popularized the term “Jazz Age” to describe the tumultuous 1920s in which he set many of his stories.
More information on F. Scott Fitzgerald from the Minnesota Historical Society.