What a pleasure these days to come across a book that unabashedly, cheerfully celebrates the lasting power of literature. Jonathan Bate takes his cue straight from one of the subjects of his dual ...

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 ...

In one of his epigraphs to this compact book on F. Scott Fitzgerald, Arthur Krystal invokes Lytton Strachey’s advice to the successful biographer: Instead of the “direct method of a scrupulous ...

The debate rages on nearly a century later. Two giants of the Jazz Age, two different approaches to storytelling, and one ...

I was 17 years old, faintly spotty and in love with Rupert Brooke. I had just been removed from my Home Counties boarding school, slap in the middle of the A-level course. My parents had become ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald, a literary giant, captured the dazzling yet hollow spirit of America's Jazz Age. His personal struggles ...

There’s been a lot said on the book’s 100th anniversary. But there’s a lot to say. By Wesley Morris, Min Jin Lee and Gilbert Cruz How F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel took over pop culture. By Michael ...

TAPS AT REVEILLE—F. Scott Fitzgerald —Scribner ($2.50). Author Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald’s title implies that the world his latest stories tell about is cockeyed, arsy-versy. A literary ...

With "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," the long, difficult relationship between the film industry and F. Scott Fitzgerald again will be put to the test, writes GREGG KILDAY. By Gregg Kilday, The ...