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 ...

On March 26, 1920, a 23-year-old writer named F. Scott Fitzgerald had his first novel, This Side of Paradise, published by Charles Scribner’s Sons. The book was an instant hit, turning the young ...

In 1937, when F. Scott Fitzgerald was 40 years old, shakily sober, heavily in debt and on the hook for payments to his wife Zelda’s psychiatric hospital and his daughter Scottie’s boarding school, he ...

One hundred years later, "The Great Gatsby" remains a triumph of modernist literature — and a rite of passage for high school students still puzzling over what, exactly, the green light means. Now, ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896, in St. Paul, Minnesota. His namesake (and second cousin three times ...

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 ...

It’s the end of a long semester. I’ve now spent just about one full academic year as a Princeton student, the last three months of it here on campus, in the best old place of all, just south of Nassau ...

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 ...