Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Fitzgerald (Saint Paul, Minnesota, 1896 – Hollywood, 1940) was an American novelist and short-story writer, a figure of the Lost Generation and the chronicler of the Jazz Age. His first novel, This Side of Paradise, made him famous at twenty-three in 1920; The Beautiful and Damned (1922), The Great Gatsby (1925) — now his most widely read book — and Tender Is the Night (1934) followed. He left more than a hundred and fifty short stories, among them The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and an unfinished novel, The Last Tycoon, published after his death in 1941.