Quotes

"I had no idea of originating an American flapper when I first began to write. I simply took girls whom I knew very well and, because they interested me as unique human beings, I used them for my heroines."

"What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story."

"Art invariably grows out of a period when, in general, the artist admires his own nation and wants to win its approval. . . . The greatest grow out of these periods as the tall heads of the crop."

Video of Author
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F. Scott Fitzgerald Meets Zelda Sayre

Works by F. Scott Fitzgerald

• This Side of Paradise. New York: Scribners, 1920; New York: Cambridge, UP, 1995. Novel.
• Flappers and Philosophers. New York: Scribners, 1921; New York: Cambridge UP, 2000. Short stories.
• The Beautiful and Damned. New York: Scribners, 1922. Novel.
• Tales of the Jazz Age. New York: Scribners, 1922. Short stories.
• The Vegetable, or From President to Postman. New York: Scribners, 1923; New York: Scribners, 1976. Play.
• The Great Gatsby. New York: Scribners, 1925; New York: Cambridge UP, 1991. Novel.
• All the Sad Young Men. New York: Scribners, 1926. Short stories.
• Tender is the Night. New York: Scribners, 1934. Novel.
• Taps at Reveille. New York: Scribners, 1935. Short stories.
• The Last Tycoon, ed. Edmund Wilson. New York: Scribners, 1941; New York: Cambridge UP, 1993 (as The Love of the Last Tycoon: A Western). Unfinished novel.
• The Crack-Up, ed. Edmund Wilson. New York: New Directions, 1945. Miscellaneous pieces by and about Fitzgerald, including a selection of letters.
• The Portable F. Scott Fitzgerald. Selected by Dorothy Parker. New York: Viking P, 1945. Includes The Great Gatsby, Tender Is the Night, and nine short stories.
• The Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald. New York: Scribners, 1951. Contains a selection of short stories, including some previously uncollected.
• Afternoon of an Author: A Collection of Uncollected Stories and Essays, ed. Arthur Mizener. New York: Scribners, 1958.
• The Bodley Head Scott Fitzgerald. 6 vols. London: Bodley Head, 1958-1963. Novels, stories, essays.
• Six Tales of the Jazz Age and Other Stories. New York: Scribners, 1960.
• The Pat Hobby Stories. New York: Scribners, 1962. Contains 16 stories, some previously uncollected.
• The Fitzgerald Reader, ed. Arthur Mizener. New York: Scribners, 1963. Contains Gatsby, excerpts from Tender and Tycoon, stories, and essays.
• The Apprentice Fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald: 1909-1917, ed. John Kuehl. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 1965. Contains 15 previously uncollected stories.
• Thoughtbook of Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald.  Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1965. Contains FSF's childhood diary.
• F. Scott Fitzgerald in His Own Time, ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli and Jackson R. Bryer. Kent, OH: Kent State UP, 1971. Contains pieces by and about Fitzgerald, all previously uncollected.
• The Basil and Josephine Stories, ed. Jackson R. Bryer and John Kuehl. New York: Scribners, 1973. Contains 14 stories, 3 previously uncollected.
• F. Scott Fitzgerald's Ledger: A Facsimile. Washington, DC: NCR / Microcard Editions, 1973.
• F. Scott Fitzgerald's Screenplay for "Three Comrades" by Erich Maria Remarque, ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1978.
• The Notebooks of F. Scott Fitzgerald, ed Matthew J. Bruccoli. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich / Bruccoli Clark, 1978.
• F. Scott Fitzgerald's St. Paul Plays: 1911-1914, ed. Alan Margolies. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Library, 1978. Contains 4 previously unpublished plays. 
• The Price Was High: The Last Uncollected Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich / Bruccoli Clark, 1979. Contains 50 stories, 39 previously uncollected and one previously unpublished.
• Poems:  1911-1940, ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli. Bloomfield Hills, MI and Columbia, SC: Bruccoli Clark,1981. Contains many previously uncollected poems.
• The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection, ed Matthew J. Bruccoli. New York: Scribners, 1989. Contains 43 stories.
• F. Scott Fitzgerald: Manuscripts, ed Matthew J. Bruccoli. 18 vols. New York: Garland, 1990-1991. Contains facsimiles of manuscripts of all the novels and many stories and essays.
• Babylon Revisited: The Screenplay.  New York: Carroll & Graf, 1993.
• Fie! Fie! Fi-Fi!: A Facsimile of the 1914 Acting Script and the Musical Score, by F. S. Fitzgerald, D. D. Griffin, A. L. Booth, and P. B. Dickey. Columbia: U of South Carolina P for the Thomas Cooper Library, 1996.
• F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Princeton Years--Selected Writings, 1914-1920, ed. Chip Deffaa. Fort Bragg, CA: Cypress House P, 1996. Contains verse, fiction, essays, and humor from The Tiger and The Nassau Lit.
• F. Scott Fitzgerald on Authorship, ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli with Judith S. Baughman. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 1996. Contains excerpts from letters, essays, and interviews.
• Trimalchio by F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Facsimile Edition of the Original Galley Proofs for "The Great Gatsby". Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 2000.
• Trimalchio: An Early Version of "The Great Gatsby," ed. James L. W. West III. New York: Cambridge UP, 2000.

Obituary
Los Angeles Times, 24 December 1940, Part II, p. 4.
"Almost as if he were typifying his uncertain and groping generation even in his early death, F. Scott Fitzgerald has passed from a world gripped again by the same kind of war hysteria that first made him famous. The author of “Taps at Reveille” has indeed left a troubled life before his time. His articulateness was that of a turbulent age. By the time he died he still must not have found the answers to the queries that he was asking all his life: Whither youth, whither the nations of the earth?

   
   Fitzgerald had an importance only time will tell whether it was ephemeral because he made himself the voice of youth crying in the wilderness of political and social and moral muddling. The youth he knew was dissolute, but it was also courageous. It was unstable, but it was also questing. It was a phenomenon of the postwar, Turbulent Twenties, a hangover from Versailles. Youth sensed that security had not been secured, but it did not know what to do about it. Neither did Fitzgerald. But he made people think. And that was something.

    He was a brilliant, sometimes profound, writer. That his work seemed to lack a definite objective was not his fault, but the fault of the world in which he found himself. He has left us a legacy of pertinent questions which he did not pretend to be able to answer. That was not the smallest part of his greatness."