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Francis Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American writer and one of the defining voices of the Lost Generation, capturing the glitter, longing, and fragility of the American dream with unforgettable elegance. In The Great Gatsby, he created a world of champagne-lit parties, romantic obsession, and self-invention, shaped in part by the intimate textures of his life with Zelda — her letters, notes, and the charged atmosphere of their marriage. His work includes novels, short stories, essays, and magazine pieces in which polished style often carries a deep undertow of disillusionment. Fitzgerald himself lived close to the edge of the world he described, surrounded by fame, debt, alcohol, and a restless hunger to be recognized. Behind the brilliance of the Jazz Age stands a writer who understood the party best just as the lights were beginning to fade.