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F. Scott Fitzgerald


Born
in St. Paul, Minnesota, The United States
September 24, 1896

Died
December 21, 1940

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John Keats, Sherwood Anderson, Edith Wharton, Theodore Dreiser ...more


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. ...more

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Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald  (?)
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“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“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

“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

Polls

April 2018 Revisit the Shelf Reread Poll

Persuasion by Jane Austen, 1817, 249 pages, Last Read Aug. 2015
 
  56 votes, 14.9%

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell, 1855, 521 pages, Last Read June 2015
 
  45 votes, 12.0%

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, 1961, 453 pages, Last Read Nov. 2013
 
  42 votes, 11.2%

Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, 1818, 273 pages, Last Read Oct. 2016
 
  38 votes, 10.1%

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, 1960, 324 pages, Last Read 2016
 
  38 votes, 10.1%

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith, 1943, 496 pages, Last Read May 2013
 
  24 votes, 6.4%

The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1922, 422 pages, Last Read Jan. 2014
 
  24 votes, 6.4%

Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë, 1847, 251 pages, Last Read Mar 2016
 
  23 votes, 6.1%

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, 1984, 320 pages, Last Read Dec. 2012
 
  22 votes, 5.9%

King Lear by William Shakespeare, 1603, 316 pages, Last Read Oct. 2012
 
  21 votes, 5.6%

The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy, 1878, 448 pages, Last Read Oct. 2015
 
  15 votes, 4.0%

The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek, 1921, 752 pages, Last Read July 2012
 
  14 votes, 3.7%

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, 1847, 867 pages, Last Read Sep. 2011
 
  14 votes, 3.7%

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