About the Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940) was an American author whose works became synonymous with the Jazz Age. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. A member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s, his works include the novels This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender Is the Night. He died at the age of forty-four while working on The Last Tycoon.