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F. Scott Fitzgerald

1896 - 1940

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Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940), widely known simply as Scott Fitzgerald, was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age, a term he popularized in his short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age. During his lifetime, he published four novels, four story collections, and 164 short stories. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of F. Scott Fitzgerald has received more than 14,717,135 page views. His biography is available in 82 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 81 in 2019). F. Scott Fitzgerald is the 51st most popular writer, the 44th most popular biography from United States (down from 39th in 2019) and the 4th most popular American Writer.

F. Scott Fitzgerald is most famous for his novel The Great Gatsby, which was published in 1925. The novel is set in 1922 and tells the story of a young man, Nick Carraway, who leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City to work in a bond office. He rents a small house next door to the lavish home of Jay Gatsby, a man whom he soon discovers is fabulously wealthy, but who seems strangely reluctant to reveal the source of his wealth.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, F. Scott Fitzgerald ranks 51 out of 7,302. Before him are Gustave Flaubert, Aristophanes, Jane Austen, Aeschylus, Simone de Beauvoir, and Octave Mirbeau. After him are Sappho, Thomas Mann, Mark Twain, Gabriel García Márquez, George Orwell, and Astrid Lindgren.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, F. Scott Fitzgerald ranks 1. After him are Wallis Simpson, Jean Piaget, Georgy Zhukov, Lev Vygotsky, Imre Nagy, André Breton, Tristan Tzara, Roman Jakobson, Paula Hitler, Konstantin Rokossovsky, and Antonin Artaud. Among people deceased in 1940, F. Scott Fitzgerald ranks 3. Before him are Leon Trotsky, and Selma Lagerlöf. After him are Paul Klee, Walter Benjamin, Neville Chamberlain, J. J. Thomson, Mikhail Bulgakov, Robert Wadlow, Nikolai Yezhov, Carl Bosch, and Peter Behrens.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, F. Scott Fitzgerald ranks 44 out of 20,380. Before him are H. P. Lovecraft (1890), Aretha Franklin (1942), Al Pacino (1940), Robert De Niro (1943), Janis Joplin (1943), and Harry S. Truman (1884). After him are J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904), Mark Twain (1835), Zodiac Killer (1940), Maria Callas (1923), Bernie Sanders (1941), and Cher (1946).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, F. Scott Fitzgerald ranks 4. Before him are Edgar Allan Poe (1809), Ernest Hemingway (1899), and H. P. Lovecraft (1890). After him are Mark Twain (1835), Robert Frost (1874), Henry David Thoreau (1817), Jack London (1876), Toni Morrison (1931), Stephen King (1947), Dr. Seuss (1904), and William Faulkner (1897).

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