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 ...

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 ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald, a literary giant, captured the dazzling yet hollow spirit of America's Jazz Age. His personal struggles ...

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 ...

Arthur Krystal, must be among the cleverest nonfiction writers around in crafting titles for his books and essay collections, does it again with Some Unfinished Chaos: The Lives of F. Scott Fitzgerald ...

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 ...

The debate rages on nearly a century later. Two giants of the Jazz Age, two different approaches to storytelling, and one ...

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 ...

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 ...