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In 1934, Ernest Hemingway wrote a blunt letter to his friend F. Scott Fitzgerald advising him to stop focusing on self-pity ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald considered 'Tender Is the Night' his ultimate masterpiece, but early 1930s readers and critics largely rejected it.

To understand the feeling that our life has no direction, the thought of F. Scott Fitzgerald offers a particularly interesting perspective. His reflection on self-knowledge and personal goals suggests ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” — which was published 100 years ago today — might not have happened without “The Big Four.” Born in the late 1890s, the four Lake Forest daughters of prominent ...

A copy of "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald is displayed June 6, 2013 at Sotheby's in New York. (Don Emmert/AFP via Getty Images) The first review of “The Great Gatsby,” published a century ...

From the French Riviera to Hollywood, these are the places that shaped F. Scott Fitzgerald's life and work.

On March 26, 1920, a 23-year-old writer named F. Scott Fitzgerald had his first novel, This Side of Paradise, published by Charles Scribner’s Sons. The book was an instant hit, turning the young ...

“The Great Gatsby” is pretty great. If not always in the “better than good” sense of the word, definitely in the “grand, ...

F Scott Fitzgerald's quote reminds us of the importance of thinking for ourselves and asserting our autonomy, if we do not ...

National Correspondent, "CBS News Sunday Morning" Lee Cowan is an Emmy-award-winning journalist serving as a national correspondent and substitute anchor for "CBS News Sunday Morning." Dotting the ...

He was one of the greatest writers in American literature. Many of his works are read by high school and college students, ...