F. SCOTT FITZGERALD was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896. He attended Princeton University and published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. Fitzgerald's masterpieces include The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, Tender Is the Night, and a host of widely admired short stories. Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda, lived in New York, Paris, and the Riviera; he died in 1940 at the age of forty-four.
“[Fitzgerald] was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a generation.” —The New York Times