Fitzgerald F. Scott

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001. Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald), 1896–1940, American novelist and short-story writer, b. St. Paul, Minn. He is ranked among the great American writers of the Princeton among the glittering, bored, and disillusioned, postwar generation. Published in 1920, the novel was an instant success and brought Fitzgerald enough money to marry Zelda that same year. 2 The young couple moved to New York City, where they became notorious for their madcap lifestyle. …

…Tycoon, a promising unfinished novel about the motion picture industry, was published in 1941. Fitzgerald also published four excellent short story collections: Flappers and Philosophers (1920), Tales of the Jazz Age (1922), All the Sad Young Men (1926), and Taps at Reveille (1935). 5 See The Crack-up (ed. by E. Wilson, 1945), a miscellaneous collection of notes, essays, and letters; Fitzgerald’s letters (ed. by A. Turnbull, 1963); biographies by A. Mizener (1951, rev. ed. 1984), M. J. Bruccoli (1981), and J. Mellow (1984); B. Way, Scott