The Great Gatsby
Fitzgerald's best-known and most widely taught novel, and a concise entry point into his themes of aspiration, class, romance, and disillusionment.
Author guide
F. Scott Fitzgerald Books in Order
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) was an American novelist, short-story writer, essayist, poet, playwright, and screenwriter. His fiction explored ambition, wealth, romantic idealism, social class, and disillusionment in the Jazz Age. His major novels include This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, Tender Is the Night, and the posthumously published unfinished novel The Last Tycoon.
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This Side of Paradise
His debut novel introduces the autobiographical and generational concerns that shaped much of his later fiction.
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Novels (8)
- This Side of Paradise
novel · 1920
This Side of Paradise is the debut novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1920. The book examines the lives and morality of carefree American youth at the dawn of the Jazz Age. Its protagonist Amory Blaine is an attractive…
- The Beautiful and Damned
novel · 1922
Twenty-five-year-old Anthony Patch appears to have it all: a Harvard education, an apartment in New York City, memberships at all of the best clubs, and a generous trust fund to draw from. Sure, his grandfather is not happy with Anthony's…
- The Great Gatsby
novel · 1925
"Extravagant rumors abound of a man named Jay Gatsby who has newly arrived to the coastline of a section of Long Island known colloquially as West Egg. Long into the night, the mysterious Gatsby threw lavish parties at his sprawling…
- Tender Is the Night
novel · 1934
Set on the French Riviera in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Night is the tragic romance of the young actress Rosemary Hoyt and the stylish American couple Dick and Nicole Diver. A brilliant young psychiatrist at the time of his marriage,…
- The Last Tycoon
novel · 1941
Fitzgerald’s last, unfinished novel tells of the rise to fame and power of a Hollywood film producer. The protagonist is believed to be based on the life and career of real-life producer Irving Thalberg.
- The Apprentice Fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald: 1909–1917
early_fiction_collection · 1965
- F. Scott Fitzgerald's Ledger: A Facsimile
nonfiction · 1973
- Before Gatsby: The First Twenty-Six Stories
early_fiction_collection · 2001
Nonfiction (2)
- Thoughtbook of Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
diary · 1965
- The Cruise of the Rolling Junk
travel_writing · 1976
Originally appeared March-May 1924 in Motor, published by Hearst magazines, inc., New York.
Short fiction (17)
- Flappers and Philosophers
short_story_collection · 1920
Flappers and Philosophers is a collection of short stories by America author F. Scott Fitzgerald, most famous for his novel The Great Gatsby. The collection was his first such publication and includes the stories "The Offshore Pirate",…
- Tales of the Jazz Age
short_story_collection · 1922
Published in 1922, the eleven Tales of the Jazz Age feature the flappers and lost young men of the period as well as a great variety of characters and scenes. Among them, the critically acclaimed novella "May Day" contrasts drunken…
- All the Sad Young Men
short_story_collection · 1926
An edition of twenty Fitzgerald short stories based on surviving manuscripts and typescripts.
- Taps at Reveille
short_story_collection · 1935
- The Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
short_story_collection · 1951
- Babylon Revisited and Other Stories
short_story_collection · 1960
Babylon Revisited and Other Stories is a collection of Fitzgerald's ten best-known short stories written between 1920 and 1937. The Stories are set in the year after the stock market crash of 1929, just after what Fitzgerald called the…
- Six Tales of the Jazz Age and Other Stories
short_story_collection · 1960
- The Mystery of the Raymond Mortgage
short_story · 1960
- Dearly Beloved
short_story · 1970
- The Basil and Josephine Stories
short_story_collection · 1973
In this classic collection of 14 short stories, Fitzgerald evokes, with a mixture of nostalgia and ironic humor, his experiences growing up in the decade before World War II. The tales were originally written as two separate series for…
- The Price Was High: Fifty Uncollected Stories
short_story_collection · 1979
The last uncollected Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald.
- The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection
short_story_collection · 1989
- The Fantasy and Mystery Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
short_story_collection · 1991
- The Lost Decade: Short Stories from Esquire, 1936–1941
short_story_collection · 2008
- The Basil, Josephine, and Gwen Stories
short_story_collection · 2009
- A Change of Class
short_story · 2016
- I'd Die For You: And Other Lost Stories
short_story_collection · 2017
Essays and speeches (2)
- The Crack-Up
essay_collection · 1945
Tells the story of Fitzgerald's sudden descent at age thirty nine from a life of success and glamor to one of emptiness and despair, and his determined recovery. This revealing collection of essays and letters renders the tale of a man…
- My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920–1940
essay_collection · 2005
Poetry (3)
- The Evil Eye
song_lyrics_collection · 1915
- Safety First
song_lyrics_collection · 1916
- Poems 1911–1940
poetry_collection · 1981
Plays (4)
- The Vegetable; or, From President to Postman
play · 1923
- F. Scott Fitzgerald's St. Paul Plays
play_collection · 1978
- F. Scott Fitzgerald's Screenplay for Three Comrades
screenplay · 1978
- Babylon Revisited: The Screenplay
screenplay · 1993
Collaborations (1)
- Bits of Paradise
coauthored_short_story_collection · 1973
"The 43 stories in this collection include both the famous ones and several that are less well known." Booklist. "Collection of 43 short stories that illustrate Fitzgerald's depth and range of literary talent...including commercial work…
Other (12)
- Fie! Fie! Fi-Fi!
musical · 1914
- The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald
letters · 1963
- Dear Scott/Dear Max: The Fitzgerald–Perkins Correspondence
correspondence · 1971
- F. Scott Fitzgerald in His Own Time: A Miscellany
mixed_collection · 1971
- The Notebooks of F. Scott Fitzgerald
notebooks · 1978
- Correspondence of F. Scott Fitzgerald
correspondence · 1980
- F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Life in Letters
letters · 1994
- F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Princeton Years—Selected Writings, 1914–1920
early_writings_collection · 1996
- Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
correspondence · 2002
- Spires and Gargoyles: Early Writings, 1909–1919
early_writings_collection · 2010
Frequently asked questions about F. Scott Fitzgerald
What is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s full name, and when was he born?
His full name was Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald. He was born on September 24, 1896, in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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Who was F. Scott Fitzgerald married to?
He married Zelda Sayre, an artist and writer, on April 3, 1920. They had one child, Frances “Scottie” Fitzgerald.
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What was F. Scott Fitzgerald’s connection to the Jazz Age?
Fitzgerald was closely associated with the Jazz Age and helped popularize the term for the post–World War I era’s prosperity, consumerism, and changing social values. His writing explored ambition, wealth, class, romance, and disillusionment during that period.
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What influenced F. Scott Fitzgerald’s writing?
Major influences included aspiration, literature, Princeton, Zelda Sayre, and his experiences with alcohol. Romantic disappointments and insecurity about social class also shaped his recurring themes.
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Why is F. Scott Fitzgerald still important in American literature?
Fitzgerald is considered a major American writer of the twentieth century, and The Great Gatsby remains widely read and critically acclaimed. Its treatment of wealth, class, ambition, and the American Dream has given it a lasting place in American cultural history.
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