Filtered through Fitzgerald's remarkable intensity of vision and fed by his matchless imagination, these tales shimmer with the exuberance of youth during the Jazz Age. This sublime short-story collection plumbs the depths of human feeling with a perspicacity that is quintessential Fitzgerald.
Frances Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896-1940) was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. He enrolled in Princeton in 1913 and in his few years there became a leader in theatrical and literary activities. He entered the army and there began writing his first novel, This Side of Paradise, which when published in 1920 captured a new generation in print and immediately established him as the bright light of his era, the spokesman for the Jazz Age. The short stories he wrote for magazines were in great demand as he became a chronicler of the manners and moods of the time. In1923 he married a glamorous girl named Zelda Sayre. As a couple they became notorious for their extravagant lifestyle. His major novels include The Beautiful and Damned (1922), The Great Gatsby (1925), Tender Is the Night (1934), and an unfinished novel of Hollywood, The Last Tycoon (1941).
