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Fitzgerald´s second collection of short stories, Tales of the Jazz Age (1922), includes two masterpieces - ´May Day´ and ´The Diamond as Big as the Ritz´ - as well as other stories from his earlier career.

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´The Curious Case of Benjamin Button´ sees a baby born in 1860 begin life as an old man and then age backwards. F. Scott Fitzgerald hinted at this kind of inversion when he called his era ´a generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken´. Perhaps nowhere in American fiction has this ´Lost Generation´ been more vividly preserved than in Fitzgerald´s short fiction. Spanning the early twentieth-century American landscape, this collection captures, with Fitzgerald´s signature blend of enchantment and disillusionment, America during the Jazz Age.

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A master of the American short story Philadelphia Enquirer

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Scott Fitzgerald, F.
Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and educated at Princeton. Stationed in Alabama, he met and later married Zelda Sayre. His first novel, This Side of Paradise published in 1920, was a tremendous critical and commercial success. Fitzgerald followed with The Beautiful and the Damned in 1922, The Great Gatsby in 1925 and Tender is the Night in 1934. He was working on The Last Tycoon (1941) when he died, in Hollywood, in 1940.

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