Who was F. Scott Fitzgerald?

F. Scott Fitzgerald was a 20th-century American short-story writer and novelist and a key figure of the Lost Generation, the group of American writers who came of age during World War I. Although he completed four novels and more than 150 short stories in his lifetime, he is perhaps best remembered for his third novel, The Great Gatsby (1925). The Great Gatsby, a skewering of the American Dream set during the Jazz Age, is today widely considered “the great American novel.”