A story about F Scott Fitzgerald
He’s one of the most distinguished American authors of the last century although his talant was recognised too late
1896–1940, American novelist and short-story writer, b. St. Paul, Minn. He is ranked among the great American writers of the 20th cent. Fitzgerald is widely considered the literary spokesman of the “jazz age”—the decade of the 1920s. Part of the interest of his work derives from the fact that the mad, gin-drinking, morally and spiritually bankrupt men and women he wrote about led lives that closely resembled his own
Described this lifestyle with poetry and tragedy in novels such as The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night, This Side of Paradise
He’s one of the most distinguished American authors of the last century although his talant was recognised too late