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F. Scott Fitzgerald biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald

Author Name:

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Born As:

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

Other Names:

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Born:

24 Sep 1896

Died:

21 Dec 1940




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Novelist                          
Selected Works:

Novels:

This Side of Paradise - 1920.
The Beautiful and Damned - 1922.
The Great Gatsby  - 1925.
Tender Is the Night  - 1934.
The Last Tycoon – originally The Love of the Last Tycoon - published posthumously - 1941.

Other works:

The Princeton Tiger - 1917.
The Vegetable - or From President to Postman - (play - 1923.
The Crack-Up - Essays and Stories - 1945.
Winter Dreams - Short Story - 1922.
Babylon Revisited - Short Story.
All the Sad Young Men - Short Story collection - 1926.
Babylon Revisited - Short Story Collection.
Taps at Reveille - Short Story Collection - 1935.
Tales of the Jazz Age - Short Story Collection - 1922.
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz - Short Story.
Bernice Bobs Her Hair - Short  Story.
The Ice Palace - Short Story.
The Bridal Party - Short Story.
The Baby Party - Short Story.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Short Story.
Head and Shoulders - Short Story.
Flappers and Philosophers - Short Story Collection - 1920.
The Basil and Josephine Stories - Short Story Collection.
Published as

Novels & Stories - 1920-1922
This Side of Paradise 
Flappers and Philosophers
The Beautiful and Damned 
Tales of the Jazz Age.
The Rich Boy - Short Story.                          
The namesake and second cousin three times removed of the author of the National Anthem. Fitzgerald’s given names indicate his parents’ pride in his father’s ancestry. His father, Edward, was from Maryland, with an allegiance to the Old South and its values. Fitzgerald’s mother, Mary (Mollie) McQuillan, was the daughter of an Irish immigrant who became wealthy as a wholesale grocer in St. Paul. Both were Catholics.