Meaning & use

F. Scott Fitzgerald

proper noun·Academic

An American novelist, 1896 to 1940, best known for writing The Great Gatsby and chronicling the Jazz Age.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald captured the glamour and excess of 1920s America in his novels.

Many high school students read The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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Often linked to the term 'Jazz Age,' which he helped popularize; his wife, Zelda Fitzgerald, was also a writer.

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