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Francis Scott Key ("F. Scott") Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was an American writer who described the social climate of the 1920s, which he called "The Jazz Age." His most famous works are The Great Gatsby (1925) and Tender Is the Night (1934), which were depressing views of the American dream and growing wealth.
From Minnesota, Fitzgerald dropped out of Princeton University and began expressing his spiritual despondency in his novels. His first novel, This Side of Paradise (1920), was a big success as he critiqued the upper class (of which he had been a part as a youth) after World War I.
Fitzgerald contributed short stories to magazines such as the Saturday Evening Post and Scribner's Magazine. He died prematurely at the age of only 44.
Fitzgerald was one of a number of authors discovered and coached by editor Maxwell Perkins of Charles Scribner's Sons, who also furthered the careers of Ernest Hemingway and Thomas Wolfe.