A fresh repackage of the "Great American Novel", F. Scott Fitzgerald's best-known work about love, the frailty of success, and darkness lurking amidst the brightness of the Jazz Age, featuring a new introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and critic, Wesley Morris.
F. Scott Fitzgeraldwas considered the quintessential author of the Jazz Age. Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896, Fitzgerald attended Princeton University, where he began to write seriously. After joining the U.S. Army in 1917, Fitzgerald met Zelda Sayre, whom he later married. In 1920, Fitzgerald's first novel,This Side of Paradise,transformed Fitzgerald overnight into a literary sensation.The Great Gatsbyfollowed in 1925, although it was not as popular at the time as his second novel,The Beautiful and the Damned. Fitzgerald died in 1940 of a heart attack. He was forty-four years old.
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