F. Scott. Fitzgerald

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Scott Fitzgerald 
(1896-1940) 
 

  • Francis Scott Fitzgerald was an American novelist and short story writer whose works are paradigmatic writing of the Jazz age (a period in 1920's ending with great depression).
  •  He is considered a member of Lost Generation of 1920's.
  • He finished four novels :
  1. This Side of Paradise (1920)
  2. The Beautiful and Damned (1922)
  3. The Great Gatsby (1925)
  4. Tender is the Night (1935)
  •  A Fifth, unfinished novel The Love of the Last Tycoon published posthumously.
  • His bibliography have previously listed the story, sometimes referred to as -"Fitzgerald bibliographies have previously listed the story, sometimes referred to as "The Women in the House", as "unpublished", or as "Lost – mentioned in correspondence, but no surviving transcript or manuscript"." 
  •  In ' This side of Paradise ' the hero reflects "I know myself but that is all".
  • About 'Ernest Hemingway' Fitzgerald said - "The very rich are different from you and me".
Important Works of Fitzgerald

1. This Side of Paradise (1920)
  •  Title is taken from the Rupert Brook's Tiare Tahiti
2. The Beautiful and Damned (1922)

3. The Great Gatsby (1925) : Magnus Opus
  • Narrator - Nick Carraway, a Yale Graduate and WW1 veteran from Midwest.
  •  In this book Fitzgerald invented the term “Jazz Age”, a period in the 1920’s ending with greatdepression.
4. Tender is the Night (1934)

  • Title is taken from John Keat's "Ode to Nightingale "
Novellas

1. The Rich Boy (1926)
2. The Diamond as big as the Ritz (1922)
Short Stories

  1.  Tales of the Jazz age (1922)
  2. All the Sad young Men (1926).


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