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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Born in 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota, F. Scott Fitzgerald attended Princeton University but never completed his degree, dropping out in 1917 to join the army. He was stationed in Alabama, where he met the socialite Zelda Sayre, whom he married in 1920 after the success of This Side of Paradise. Fame, money, and excessive drinking took their toll on both Scott and Zelda. After’s Zelda was institutionalized, Fitzgerald moved to Hollywood in 1937 to write scripts and attempt to revive a flagging career; his experiences there inspired the unfinished novel The Last Tycoon (1941). Fitzgerald died of a heart attack in Hollywood in 1940. His major works include This Side of Paradise (1920), The Beautiful and Damned (1922), Tales of the Jazz Age (1922), The Great Gatsby (1925), All the Sad Young Men (1926), and Tender is the Night (1934).
 
James L. W. West III, editor, is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English, Emeritus, at Pennsylvania State University.  He is the author of William Styron: A Life (1998) and The Perfect Hour: The Romance of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ginevra King (2005), among other books. From 1994 to 2019, West was the General Editor of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald; his variorum edition of The Great Gatsby was the final volume in the series.

F. Scott Fitzgerald Books

The Great Gatsby book cover

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Best Novels Compendium (Featuring The Great Gatsby, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Sound and the Fury, and A Farewell to Arms) book cover

The Best Novels Compendium (Featuring The Great Gatsby, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Sound and the Fury, and A Farewell to Arms)

F. Scott Fitzgerald
This Side of Paradise book cover

This Side of Paradise

F. Scott Fitzgerald
This Side of Paradise book cover

This Side of Paradise

F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby book cover

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Classic Romance Collection - Volume II - Wuthering Heights - A Farewell to Arms - The Great Gatsby - Unabridged book cover

Classic Romance Collection - Volume II - Wuthering Heights - A Farewell to Arms - The Great Gatsby - Unabridged

Emily Brontë
Adventures, #13 book cover

Adventures, #13

F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and Damned book cover

The Beautiful and Damned

F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald On Writing book cover

F. Scott Fitzgerald On Writing

Larry W. Phillips
The Great Gatsby (Classics Made Easy) book cover

The Great Gatsby (Classics Made Easy)

F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Graded Reader + Original) book cover

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Graded Reader + Original)

F. Scott Fitzgerald
This Side of Paradise book cover

This Side of Paradise

F. Scott Fitzgerald
All the Sad Young Men book cover

All the Sad Young Men

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender Is The Night book cover

Tender Is The Night

F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby book cover

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and Damned book cover

The Beautiful and Damned

F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and Damned book cover

The Beautiful and Damned

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Suave es la noche book cover

Suave es la noche

F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby book cover

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald
This Side of Paradise book cover

This Side of Paradise

F. Scott Fitzgerald
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