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F. Scott Fitzgerald

1896 - 1940

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Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940), widely known simply as Scott Fitzgerald, was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age, a term that he popularized in his short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age. He published four novels, four story collections, and 164 short stories. He achieved temporary popular success and fortune in the 1920s, but he did not receive critical acclaim until after his death; he is now widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. F. Scott Fitzgerald is the 44th most popular writer (up from 51st in 2019), the 47th most popular biography from United States (down from 44th in 2019) and the 5th most popular American Writer.

F. Scott Fitzgerald is most famous for his novel The Great Gatsby, which was published in 1925. The novel is set in 1922 and tells the story of a young man, Nick Carraway, who leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City to work in a bond office. He rents a small house next door to the lavish home of Jay Gatsby, a man whom he soon discovers is fabulously wealthy, but who seems strangely reluctant to reveal the source of his wealth.

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Among writers, F. Scott Fitzgerald ranks 44 out of 7,302. Before him are Charles Dickens, Matsuo Bashō, Hermann Hesse, Emily Dickinson, Ernest Hemingway, and Horace. After him are Alexander Pushkin, Simone de Beauvoir, Friedrich Schiller, Aristophanes, Thomas Hardy, and Charles Baudelaire.

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Among people born in 1896, F. Scott Fitzgerald ranks 1. After him are Wallis Simpson, Jean Piaget, Georgy Zhukov, Lev Vygotsky, André Breton, Imre Nagy, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Tristan Tzara, Roman Jakobson, Antonin Artaud, and Gerty Cori. Among people deceased in 1940, F. Scott Fitzgerald ranks 2. Before him is Leon Trotsky. After him are J. J. Thomson, Selma Lagerlöf, Paul Klee, Neville Chamberlain, Walter Benjamin, Mikhail Bulgakov, Arthur Harden, Nikolai Yezhov, Robert Wadlow, and Carl Bosch.

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Among people born in United States, F. Scott Fitzgerald ranks 47 out of 20,380. Before him are Joseph Smith (1805), Emily Dickinson (1830), Michael Jackson (1958), Ernest Hemingway (1899), Al Gore (1948), and George W. Bush (1946). After him are Walt Disney (1901), Maria Callas (1923), George Marshall (1880), Mark Twain (1835), Aretha Franklin (1942), and Janis Joplin (1943).

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Among writers born in United States, F. Scott Fitzgerald ranks 5. Before him are Edgar Allan Poe (1809), T. S. Eliot (1888), Emily Dickinson (1830), and Ernest Hemingway (1899). After him are Mark Twain (1835), Robert Frost (1874), Toni Morrison (1931), George R. R. Martin (1948), Kurt Vonnegut (1922), Louisa May Alcott (1832), and Ursula K. Le Guin (1929).

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