author
F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald
1896–1940
Known for capturing the glitter and strain of the Jazz Age, this American novelist and short-story writer created some of the most enduring portraits of ambition, love, and disillusion in modern fiction. His best-known work, The Great Gatsby, helped secure his place as a classic of American literature.
7 Audiobooks
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and Damned
by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald
This Side of Paradise
by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald
Tales of the Jazz Age
by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald
Flappers and Philosophers
by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald
All the Sad Young Men
by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald
The Vegetable; or, From President to Postman
by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald
About the author
Born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, in 1896, he became one of the defining literary voices of the 1920s. He studied at Princeton, served in the U.S. Army during World War I, and rose to fame soon after the publication of This Side of Paradise in 1920.
He went on to write novels including The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender Is the Night, along with many widely read short stories. His fiction is closely associated with the glamour, restlessness, and excess of the Jazz Age, a term he helped popularize.
His life with Zelda Fitzgerald became almost as famous as his books, and the pressures of fame, money, and illness shaped his later years. Although he died in 1940, his reputation grew steadily after his death, and he is now widely regarded as one of the major American writers of the 20th century.