After his death The New York Times said of him that 'He was better than he knew, for in fact and in the literary sense he invented a 'generation'. Among his publications were five novels, This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and the Damned, Tender is the Night and The Last Tycoon (his last and unfinished work) six volumes of short stories and The Crack Up, a selection of autobiographical pieces.įitzgerald died suddenly in 1940. Their traumatic marriage and her subsequent breakdowns became the leading influence on his writing. He was said to have epitomized the Jazz Age, which he himself defined as 'a generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken'. Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in St Paul, Minnesota, and went to Princeton University, which he left in 1917 to join the army. An unfinished novel, The Last Tycoon, was published posthumously.į. He wrote many short stories and four novels, This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and the Damned, Tender is the Night and The Great Gatsby. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 -1940) is widely considered the poet laureate of the Jazz Age.
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