F. Scott Fitzgerald的作品

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) was born in St Paul, Minnesota, left Princeton for the army and became famous at twenty-three with his first novel, This Side of Paradise. He married the brilliant Zelda Sayre, named the Jazz Age and lived its glamour in New York and on the French Riviera.

The Great Gatsby (1925), now considered one of the greatest American novels, sold poorly in his lifetime. Zelda's illness, debts and drink darkened his later years, and he died in Hollywood at forty-four, writing film scripts and believing himself a failure.