F. Scott Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896–December 21,1940) was an Irish-American Jazz Age novelist and short story writer.

Biography and criticism

• The standard biographies of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald are Arthur Mizener's The Far Side of Paradise (1951, 1965), and Matthew Bruccoli's Some Sort of Epic Grandeur (1981). Bruccoli's account is more readable and more accurate. Fitzgerald's letters have also been published in various editions such as Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, ed. Jackson R. Bryer and Cathy W. Banks (2002); Correspondence of F. Scott Fitzgerald, ed. Matthew Bruccoli and Margaret Duggan (1980), and F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Life in Letters, ed. Matthew Bruccoli (1994).
• Zelda Fitzgerald published a novel, Save Me the Waltz, in 1932.
• The film "Beloved Infidel" (1959) portrays Fitzgerald (played by Gregory Peck) during his final years as a Hollywood scenarist. Another movie called "Last Call" (2002) (Jeremy Irons plays the role of F. Scott Fitzgerald) describes the relationship with Frances Kroll during his last two years of life.