F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), born Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald in Saint Paul, Minnesota, captured the glamour and disillusionment of the Jazz Age through elegant prose and complex characters navigating wealth and morality.

Major Works

• The Great Gatsby (1925) - explores wealth and the American Dream in 1920s Long Island
• Tender Is the Night (1934) - depicts the decline of a promising psychiatrist on the French Riviera
• This Side of Paradise (1920) - follows a young man's ambitions at Princeton University
• The Beautiful and Damned (1922) - chronicles a couple's moral deterioration while awaiting an inheritance

Fitzgerald mastered the unreliable narrator technique, allowing readers to question characters' perceptions and motivations. His narrator Nick Carraway in The Great Gatsby reveals his own biases while recounting Gatsby's story, creating psychological depth that influenced modern literature.

The Pulitzer Prize Committee selected The Great Gatsby as one of the 100 best American novels in 1949, nine years after Fitzgerald's death. His depictions of the wealthy elite, romantic yearning, and social decline remain central to American literary studies, with The Great Gatsby taught in high schools and universities worldwide.

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Wikipedia: F. Scott Fitzgerald

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