Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896, in St. Paul, Minnesota. His namesake (and second cousin three times removed on his father’s side) was Francis Scott Key, who wrote the lyrics ...

On March 26, 1920, a 23-year-old writer named F. Scott Fitzgerald had his first novel, This Side of Paradise, published by ...

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What a pleasure these days to come across a book that unabashedly, cheerfully celebrates the lasting power of literature. Jonathan Bate takes his cue straight from one of the subjects of his dual ...

I was 17 years old, faintly spotty and in love with Rupert Brooke. I had just been removed from my Home Counties boarding school, slap in the middle of the A-level course. My parents had become ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's quote highlights the strength of a first-rate intelligence: the capacity to hold opposing ideas simultaneously and remain functional. This intellectual maturity allows ...

In one of his epigraphs to this compact book on F. Scott Fitzgerald, Arthur Krystal invokes Lytton Strachey’s advice to the successful biographer: Instead of the “direct method of a scrupulous ...

Host Steve Inskeep speaks with the granddaughter of author F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eleanor Lanahan, about the remarkable correspondence between her grandfather and his wife, Zelda. The letters are ...

Encountering F. Scott Fitzgerald is inevitable in the American educational system, usually in the form of "The Great Gatsby" (1925) in sophomore or junior year of high school, whichever has been ...

There’s been a lot said on the book’s 100th anniversary. But there’s a lot to say. By Wesley Morris, Min Jin Lee and Gilbert Cruz How F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel took over pop culture. By Michael ...

TAPS AT REVEILLE—F. Scott Fitzgerald —Scribner ($2.50). Author Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald’s title implies that the world his latest stories tell about is cockeyed, arsy-versy. A literary ...

A region famous for its sun-drenched climate becomes a refreshing retreat when the summer heat, megayachts and swarms of tourists are gone. By Alexis Steinman and Gianni Cipriano There’s been a lot ...