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Book SynopsisFrancis Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age a term he popularized in his short story collection
Tales of the Jazz Age. His first novel,
This Side of Paradise, was published in 1920 and was a tremendous critical and commercial success. Fitzgerald followed with
The Beautiful and the Damned,
The Great Gatsby and
Tender is the Night . He was working on
The Last Tycoon when he died, in Hollywood, in 1940.
Trade ReviewThe Jazz Age chronicler's first great novel * The Times *
No one has written more elegiacally about America than F. Scott Fitzgerald...a sense of lost time and the irretrievability of the past gave much of his work - indeed, his life - an ineradicable undertone of mourning * Guardian *
If Francis Scott Fitzgerald had not existed, it would have been necessary to invent him. Seldom has there been a character who personified, as well as chronicled, an age with such dexterity and verisimilitude * Sunday Times *
None was more beautiful, none more damned, than Fitzgerald himself * Independent on Sunday *
