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[[Image:6357ytfhg.jpg|right|thumb|F. Scott Fitzgerald, photographed by Carl van Vechten in 1937.]]

[[Image:6357ytfhg.jpg|right|thumb|F. Scott Fitzgerald, photographed by Carl van Vechten in 1937.]]

'''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.

'''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), engaged upon by Fitzgerald as a "study of the rich."  While he considered ''Tender'' to be his best effort, ''Gatsby'' is by far his more famous work, and has been adapted into several highly successful motion pictures.  It remains almost universally taught in high school English classes for its insightful examination of American socialite society.

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.

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.