Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896, in St. Paul, Minnesota. His namesake (and second cousin three times removed on his father’s side) was Francis Scott Key, who wrote the lyrics ...

Thursday marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby." Author Steve Almond has written about the struggles and pleasures of writing and "The Great Gatsby.

Beauty, privilege and love promise a perfect life, yet Fitzgerald shows how quickly illusion cracks when reality asks for ...

The Great Gatsby turns 100 this year, but its tale of doomed love and ambition was inspired by F. Scott Fitzgerald’s own teenage heartbreak after being rejected by a rich debutante Gatsby’s lavish ...

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 ...

What began as an effort to make progress on Wanger’s screenplay became a disastrous weekend in Hanover, during which Fitzgerald broke his sobriety and entered a period of professional decline. In a ...

"'Can't repeat the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!'" That famous line was delivered by Jay Gatsby, the fictional protagonist of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," ...