Novelist · 1896 – 1940

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Wrote The Great Gatsby, a defining portrait of the American Dream and its corruption, along with Tender Is the Night and acclaimed short stories, capturing the glamour and disillusion of the 1920s.

Major Works

  • The Great Gatsby
  • Tender Is the Night
  • This Side of Paradise

Impact Analysis

Fitzgerald captured an entire era — its glamour, excess and hollowness — in prose of rare beauty, and The Great Gatsby became a permanent fixture of American literature.

Historical influence score: 80/100

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