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Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896, St. Paul, Minn U.S - December 21, 1940 Hollywood, Calif) was a short story writer. Fitzgerald is regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century, with his novels famous for its depiction of the Jazz Age (1920s). He finished four novels (including "The Great Gatsby", "The Beautiful and the Damned"), left the fifth unfinished and wrote a dozen more that features the theme of youth, despair and …

…Dear Max: The Fitzgerald-Perkins Correspondence, ed. John Kuehl and Jackson R. Bryer (New York: Scribners, 1971; London: Cassell, 1973). *<Tab/>As Ever, Scott Fitz-Letters Between F. Scott Fitzgerald and His Literary Agent Harold Ober, ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli and Jennifer Atkinson (New York & Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1972; London: Woburn Press, 1973). *<Tab/>Correspondence of F. Scott Fitzgerald, ed. Bruccoli and Margaret M. Duggan with Susan Walker (New York: Random House, 1980).