F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Fitzgerald, 1937

About the author

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Biographical details ▽ Biographical details △

Born
St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S., 1896

Died
Hollywood, California, U.S., 1940

Places of writing
United States: St. Paul, Princeton, New York City, Long Island, Nortdh Carolina and Hollywood;
France: Paris and Riviera

Nationality
American

Forms of writing
Novels, stories, memoir, play, screenplays

Genres
Literary, fantasy, memoir

Writing language
English

Places of writing
United States, France

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Literature

• Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)

• The Great Gatsby (1925)

• Tender Is the Night (1934)

Novels

• The Great Gatsby (1925)

• Tender Is the Night (1934)

Stories

• "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" (1920)

• "May Day" (1920)

• "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (1922)

• "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" (1922)

• "Babylon Revisited" (1931)

Story Collections

• Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)

American Literature

• Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)

• The Great Gatsby (1925)

• Tender Is the Night (1934)

Fantasy Stories

• "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (1922)

Literary Fiction

• The Great Gatsby (1925)

• Tender Is the Night (1934)

Works published in book form

This Side of Paradise, novel, 1920

Flappers and Philosophers, story collection, 1920

Includes "The Offshore Pirate", "The Ice Palace", "Head and Shoulders", "The Cut-Glass Bowl", "Bernice Bobs Her Hair", "Benediction", "Dalyrimple Goes Wrong" and "The Four Fists"

The Beautiful and Damned, novel, 1922

Tales of the Jazz Age, story collection, 1922

Includes "The Jelly-Bean", "The Camel's Back", "May Day", "Porcelain and Pink", "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz", "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", "Tarquin of Cheapside", "O Russet Witch!", "The Lees of Happiness", "Mr. Icky", "Jemina" and "The Mountain Girl"

The Vegetable or From President to Postman, play, 1923

The Great Gatsby, novel, 1925

All the Sad Young Men, story collection, 1925

Includes "The Rich Boy", "Winter Dreams", "The Baby Party", "Absolution", "Rags Martin-Jones and the Pr-nce of W-les", "The Adjuster", "Hot and Cold Blood", "The Sensible Thing" and "Gretchen's Forty Winks"

Tender Is the Night, novel, 1934

Taps at Reveille, story collection, 1935

Includes "The Scandal Detectives", "The Freshest Boy", "He Thinks He's Wonderful", "The Captured Shadow", "The Perfect Life", "First Blood", "A Nice Quiet Place", "A Woman with a Past", "Crazy Sunday", "Two Wrongs", "The Night of Chancellorsville", "The Last of the Belles", "Majesty", "Family in the Wind", "A Short Trip Home", "One Interne", "The Fiend" and "Babylon Revisited"

The Last Tycoon, novel, 1941, retitled Love of the Last Tycoon, 1941

The Crack-Up, essay, letter and note collection, 1945

Includes essays "The Crack-Up", "Pasting It Together" and "Handle with Care"

The Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, story collection, 1951, introduced and notes by Malcolm Cowlley

Afternoon of An Author: A Selection of Uncollected Stories and Essays, story and essay collection, 1958

Babylon Revisited and Other Stories, story collection, 1960

The Pat Hobby Stories, story collection, 1962

Includes "Pat Hobby's Christmas Wish", "A Man in the Way", "Boil Some Water--Lots of It", "Teamed with Genius", "Pat Hobby and Orson Welles", "Pat Hobby's Secret", "Pat Hobby, Putative Father", "The Homes of the Stars", "Pat Hobby Does His Bit", "Pat Hobby's Preview", "No Harm Trying", "A Patriotic Short", "On the Trail of Pat Hobby", "Fun in an Artist's Studio", "Two Old-Timers", "Mightier than the Sword" and "Pat Hobby's College Days"

The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald, letters, 1964

The Apprentice Fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald, story collection, 1965

Dear Scott/Dear Max, letters, 1971

As Ever, Scott Fitz—, letters, 1972

The Basil and Josephine Stories, story collection, 1973

Bits of Paradise: 21 Uncollected Stories by F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, story collection, 1974

The Price Was High: Fifty Uncollected Stories, story collection, 1979

Correspondence of F. Scott Fitzgerald, letters, 1980

Poems 1911-1940, poetry collection, 1981

The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, story collection, 1989

F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Life in Letters, letters, 1994

Trimalchio: An Early Version of The Great Gatsby, novel, 2000

Novels and Stories 1920–1922, novel and story collection, 2000

Before Gatsby: The First Twenty-Six Stories, story collection, 2001

Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, letters, 2002

My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920–1940, essay collection, 2005

The Lost Decade: Short Stories from Esquire, 1936–1941, story collection, 2008

The Basil, Josephine, and Gwen Stories, story collection, 2009

Spires and Gargoyles: Early Writings, 1909–1919, collection, 2010

Dreams of Youth: The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald, letters, 2011

I'd Die For You: And Other Lost Stories, story and fragments, collection, 2017

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