F. Scott Fitzgerald Books

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F. Scott Fitzgerald was a famous author from the 20th Century that only published four novels before his death. And yet, scholars hail him as one of America’s greatest writers, best known for exploring the flamboyance of the jazz age.

Order of F. Scott Fitzgerald Standalone Novels

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1 This Side of Paradise 1920 Description / Buy
2 The Diamond as Big as the Ritz (Short Story) 1922 Description / Buy
3 The Beautiful and Damned 1922 Description / Buy
4 The Great Gatsby 1926 Description / Buy
5 Tender Is the Night 1934 Description / Buy
6 The Last Tycoon 1941 Description / Buy
7 Trimalchio: An Early Version of The Great Gatsby 2000 Description / Buy
8 The Popular Girl 2006 Description / Buy

Order of F. Scott Fitzgerald Short Stories/Novellas

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1 Bernice Bobs Her Hair (Short Story) 1920 Description / Buy
2 May Day (Short Story) 1920 Description / Buy
3 The Ice Palace (Short Story) 1920 Description / Buy
4 The Offshore Pirate (Short Story) 1920 Description / Buy
5 Head and Shoulders (Short Story) 1920 Description / Buy
6 The Lees of Happiness (Short Story) 1920 Description / Buy
7 The Jelly-Bean (Short Story) 1920 Description / Buy
8 The Camel's Back (Short Story) 1920 Description / Buy
9 Benediction (Short Story) 1920 Description / Buy
10 Myra Meets His Family (Short Story) 1920 Description / Buy
11 Mr. Icky & Porcelain and Pink (Short Story) 1920 Description / Buy
12 The Four Fists (Short Story) 1920 Description / Buy
13 Jemina & Tarquin of Cheapside (Short Story) 1921 Description / Buy
14 Winter Dreams (Short Story) 1922 Description / Buy
15 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Short Story) 1922 Description / Buy
16 Absolution (Short Story) 1924 Description / Buy
17 The Cruise of the Rolling Junk (Short Story) 1924 Description / Buy
18 Gretchen's Forty Winks (Short Story) 1924 Description / Buy
19 Love in the Night 1925 Description / Buy
20 The Rich Boy (Short Story) 1926 Description / Buy
21 Magnetism (Short Story) 1928 Description / Buy
22 The Night at Chancellorsville (Short Story) 1935 Description / Buy
23 Dice, Brassknuckles & Guitar (Short Story) 2018 Description / Buy
24 Basil the Freshest Boy (Short Story) 2018 Description / Buy
25 What a Handsome Pair ! (Short Story) 2018 Description / Buy

Order of F. Scott Fitzgerald Collections

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1 F. Scott Fitzgerald's St. Paul Plays 1911-14 1914 Description / Buy
2 The Apprentice Fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1909-1917 1917 Description / Buy
3 Spires and Gargoyles 1919 Description / Buy
4 The Short Stories 1920 Description / Buy
5 Flappers and Philosophers 1920 Description / Buy
6 The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald 1920 Description / Buy
7 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Six Other Stories 1921 Description / Buy
8 Tales of the Jazz Age 1922 Description / Buy
9 The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, and Other Stories 1922 Description / Buy
10 Glittering Things: Flappers, Fantasies & Tales of the Jazz Age 1922 Description / Buy
11 The Best Early Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald 1924 Description / Buy
12 All the Sad Young Men 1926 Description / Buy
13 The Basil and Josephine Stories 1928 Description / Buy
14 Babylon Revisited and Other Stories 1931 Description / Buy
15 The St. Paul Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald 1931 Description / Buy
16 The Fantasy And Mystery Stories Of F. Scott Fitzgerald 1935 Description / Buy
17 Taps at Reveille 1935 Description / Buy
18 Poems 1911-1940 1940 Description / Buy
19 The Pat Hobby Stories 1940 Description / Buy
20 The Lost Decade and other stories (Short Story) 1968 Description / Buy
21 The Price Was High 1979 Description / Buy
22 Collected Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald 1983 Description / Buy
23 Afternoon of an Author 1987 Description / Buy
24 Before Gatsby 2001 Description / Buy
25 On Booze (Short Story) 2011 Description / Buy
26 Gatsby Girls 2013 Description / Buy
27 The Love Boat and Other Stories 2015 Description / Buy
28 Mystery & Fantasy Stories (Short Story) 2015 Description / Buy
29 I'd Die for You and Other Lost Stories 2017 Description / Buy
30 The Beautiful And Damned And Other Stories 2019 Description / Buy
31 All of the Belles (Short Story) 2020 Description / Buy
32 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Stories 2020 Description / Buy

Order of F. Scott Fitzgerald Non-Fiction Books

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1 The Crack-Up 1936 Description / Buy
2 As ever, Scott Fitz 1940 Description / Buy
3 Dear Scott/Dear Max 1971 Description / Buy
4 The Notebooks of F. Scott Fitzgerald 1978 Description / Buy
5 A Life in Letters 1980 Description / Buy
6 Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda 1985 Description / Buy
7 The Sayings of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Short Story) 1995 Description / Buy
8 On Authorship 1996 Description / Buy
9 Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald (Short Story) 2003 Description / Buy
10 A Short Autobiography 2011 Description / Buy
11 Dreams of Youth 2011 Description / Buy
12 The Thoughtbook of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Short Story) 2013 Description / Buy

F. Scott Fitzgerald Anthologies

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1 Short Story Masterpieces: 35 Classic American and British Stories from the First Half of the 20th Century 1954 Description / Buy
2 The Oxford Book of American Short Stories 1992 Description / Buy
3 First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers 1994 Description / Buy
4 Writing New York 1998 Description / Buy
5 The Best American Short Stories of the Century 2000 Description / Buy
6 40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology 2000 Description / Buy
7 Writing Los Angeles 2002 Description / Buy
8 The Lost Generation Reader: Expatriate American Writers in Europe, 1900 - 1950 2004 Description / Buy
9 50 Classic Novellas 2011 Description / Buy
10 Radio Silence 2012 Description / Buy
11 Favorite Love Stories 2017 Description / Buy
12 Writers: Their Lives and Works 2018 Description / Buy
13 The Ultimate Short Story Bundle 2020 Description / Buy
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Born in 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Fitzgerald’s father was Edward Fitzgerald. He ran a wicker furniture business for a while. When it failed, Edward became a Procter and Gamble salesman.

The author’s mother was Mary McQuillan, the daughter of a relatively well-off Irish-Catholic family of wholesale grocers. Fitzgerald and his mother made frequent trips between Buffalo and Syracuse because of his father’s job.

They only settled down in St. Paul when Edward lost the Procter and Gamble job. Mary’s inheritance kept them afloat.

Fitzgerald was blessed with good looks and intelligence, two attributes that earned the boy the adoration of his parents. Mary was particularly fond of the author. The boy did not waste his potential.

A former student at St. Paul Academy, he was thirteen when his first story appeared in a school newspaper. At fifteen, he joined the Newman School and found an admirer in Father Sigourney Fay, who pushed him to pursue his gift.

Fitzgerald joined Princeton University following his graduation from the Newman school. The author was determined to hone his craft, an objective he achieved by contributing scripts to the Triangle Club’s musicals. He also wrote for publications like the Princeton Tiger and the Nassau Literary Magazine.

But the author was sacrificing his coursework to write stories. Many people thought a stint on academic probation would force him to reorganize his priorities. Some of them were surprised when he abandoned the University for the U.S. Army.

But the thought of dying in WWI before achieving his literary goals scared Fitzgerald, which is why he wrote ‘The Romantic Egotist’ before reporting for duty.

Since the novel was hastily written, the manuscript was rejected. However, the publisher in question encouraged the author to make more submissions because of the originality and potential they noticed in ‘The Romantic Egotist.’

The author never saw combat. The war ended before his superiors could deploy him. Fitzgerald tried to earn a living in advertising after leaving the army, but he left the field after a few months to focus on his stories.

He was 24 when ‘This Side of Paradise’ came out and turned him into a literary sensation. He used the celebrity status that came with the glowing critic reviews to pursue a lavish lifestyle.

Before long, the author was making enough money from his short stories to survive and thrive as a full-time writer. But his wife Zelda was struggling because of the mental issues that plagued her. The trips to France did little to improve her situation.

The schizophrenia diagnosis came after a breakdown in 1930. Zelda became a frequent guest at several mental health centers in the years preceding her death.

For his part, alcoholism, depression, and writer’s block destroyed Fitzgerald’s career. But the author’s situation improved when he fled to Hollywood and reinvented himself as a screenwriter.

F. Scott. Fitzgerald Books into Movies

‘The Beautiful and Damned,’ ‘The Last Tycoon,’ ‘Tender Is The Night,’ and ‘The Great Gatsby’ received live-action movie adaptations.

Best F. Scott Fitzgerald Books

The author reached the height of his success posthumously. ‘The Great Gatsby’ only became a celebrated hit after his death. Fitzgerald’s best books include:

The Great Gatsby: The Great Gatsby chronicles the life of an incredibly wealthy man (Jay Gatsby). The narrator, Nick Carraway, looks at the fabulous parties Jay attended on Long Island following the Great War and the lies, sex, and corruption he navigated.

Tender Is The Night: Dick and Nicole have it. The couple is good-looking and rich. They walk in privileged circles, enjoying the kinds of luxuries most people can only dream of. But things are not quite what they seem. This becomes obvious to Rosemary Hoyt once she takes an interest in the couple.

Initially, Rosemary is infatuated with Dick. The brilliant psychiatrist has everything the young actress wants. But it soon becomes clear that Dick is not just Nicole’s husband. He’s also her doctor, doing what he can to keep her mental neuroses under control.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s wife was struggling with homicidal and suicidal tendencies because of the mental issues that plagued her while the author was writing this book.

When Does The Next F. Scott Fitzgerald book come out?

F. Scott Fitzgerald doesn't seem to have an upcoming book. Their newest book is The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Stories and was released on March, 18th 2020. It is the newest book in the F. Scott Fitzgerald Collections.

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