Introduction: Clio and Scott -- Part I. Beginnings, 1896-1920: Prince and pauper -- Celtic blood -- Forever Princeton -- Golden girl -- Opposites alike -- Part II. Building up, 1920-1925: Trouble in ...

The best-selling writer of the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of a masterpiece depicting the fraught American dream of fame and success, “The Great Gatsby” (1925), followed by his French ...

Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896, in St. Paul, Minnesota. His namesake (and second cousin three times removed on his father’s side) was Francis Scott Key, who wrote the lyrics ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald, a literary giant, captured the dazzling yet hollow spirit of America's Jazz Age. His personal struggles ...

The Great Gatsby turns 100 this year, but its tale of doomed love and ambition was inspired by F. Scott Fitzgerald’s own teenage heartbreak after being rejected by a rich debutante Gatsby’s lavish ...