F. Scott Fitzgerald Novelist

Gender: Male
Citizenship: United States
Born: Sep 24, 1896
Died: Dec 21, 1940

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s. He finished four novels: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender Is the Night. A fifth, unfinished novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon, was published posthumously. Fitzgerald also wrote many short stories that treat themes of youth and promise along with age and despair.

Fitzgerald's work has been adapted into films many times. His short story, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, was the basis for a 2008 film. Tender Is the Night was filmed in 1962, and made into a television miniseries in 1985. The Beautiful and Damned was filmed in 1922 and 2010. The Great Gatsby has been the basis for numerous films of the same name, spanning nearly 90 years: 1926, 1949, 1974, 2000, and 2013 adaptations. In addition, Fitzgerald's own life from 1937 to 1940 was dramatized in 1958 in Beloved Infidel.

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside. God

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain. great & success

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young. best, romantic & success

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you. New Year's Day

Forgotten is forgiven. forgiveness

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders. age

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known. men & women

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day. morning

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. art

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming. poetry

I'm a romantic a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't. hope & romantic

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness. women

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours. great

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind. communication