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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