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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a classic piece of literature today that has been read by millions. The book set on Long Island during the Jazz Age is a work read by English classes ...

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 ...

Hollywood hunk Brad Pitt is starring in the upcoming movie version of "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," about a man born old who grows young. F. Scott Fitzgerald, who wrote the short story of the ...

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 ...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that for many, "The Great Gatsby" is “the Great American Novel.” While it didn’t sell ...

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 ...

Who Was F. Scott Fitzgerald? The late novelist and short story writer F. Scott Fitzgerald is considered one of the preeminent American authors of all time almost entirely due to the enormous ...