F. Scott Fitzgerald

Born

in St. Paul, Minnesota, The United States

September 24, 1896

Died

December 21, 1940

Genre

Fiction, Short Stories

Influences

John Keats, Sherwood Anderson, Edith Wharton, Theodore Dreiser

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Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American writer of novels and short stories, whose works have been seen as evocative of the Jazz Age, a term he himself allegedly coined. He is regarded as one of the greatest twentieth century writers. Fitzgerald was of the self-styled "Lost Generation," Americans born in the 1890s who came of age during World War I. He finished four novels, left a fifth unfinished, and wrote dozens of short stories that treat themes of youth, despair, and age. He was married to Zelda Fitzgerald.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s books

Average rating: 3.9 · 3,895,216 ratings · 84,655 reviews · 894 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Great Gatsby 3.92 avg rating — 3,543,942 ratings — published 1925 — 2150 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Amor Towles (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 3.82 avg rating — 106,045 ratings — published 1934 — 671 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Side of Paradise 3.67 avg rating — 56,539 ratings — published 1920 — 354 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 3.55 avg rating — 44,633 ratings — published 1922 — 579 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Beautiful and Damned 3.75 avg rating — 41,723 ratings — published 1922 — 336 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Short Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli (Editor) 4.23 avg rating — 13,765 ratings — published 1920 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Love of the Last Tycoon 3.65 avg rating — 9,617 ratings — published 1941 — 170 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Babylon Revisited and Other Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L.W. West III (Afterword) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5,020 ratings — published 1931 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, and Other Stories 3.89 avg rating — 5,830 ratings — published 1922 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Six Other Stories 3.70 avg rating — 5,495 ratings — published 1921 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: book, inspirational

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“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: inspirational, women

9686 likes

“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

tags: loneliness

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Polls

January 2015 New School Classic Poll

1985, Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez, 348 pages

17 votes, 29.3%

1933, Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 315 pages

7 votes, 12.1%

1952, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, 581 pages

7 votes, 12.1%

1958, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, 209 pages

6 votes, 10.3%

1951, The End of the Affair by Graham Greene, 160 pages

5 votes, 8.6%

1985, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami, 400 pages

4 votes, 6.9%

1973, Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, 302 pages

3 votes, 5.2%

1958, The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, 320 pages

3 votes, 5.2%

1920, The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, 305 pages

2 votes, 3.4%

1985, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy, 337 pages

2 votes, 3.4%

1947, A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, 107 pages

1 vote, 1.7%

1916, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, 329 pages

1 vote, 1.7%

1928, Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh, 300 pages

0 votes, 0.0%

1958, The Bell by Iris Murdoch, 320 pages

0 votes, 0.0%

58 total votes

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