"I know myself," he cried, "but that is all-" - F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

F. Scott Fitzgerald - An Annotated Bibliography

The American author F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940) published his first novel 'This Side of Paradise' (1920) almost 100 years ago. Yet, even though his writing is firmly rooted in the era he lived in - the heyday of the Roaring Twenties - his works still feel contemporary. The age of the mass media had just begun when Fitzgerald started his career, but still he anticipated how omnipresent images would impact the way we lead our lives. Beauty matters to his heroes. Glittering surfaces attract them. Yet more often than not, their journeys end in bitter disappointment when they realize that the world does not live up to their ideals - neither in an aesthetic nor in an ethical sense.

This site provides an annotated bibliography of Fitzgerald's works and offers an overview of his literary work and its movie adaptations, the biographies and other books about his writing as well as links to other websites dedicated to Fitzgerald.

F. Scott Fitzgerald's writing:

• The novels
• The short stories
• Movie scripts and plays
• Letters and essays

Books about F. Scott Fitzgerald:

• Biographies
• Books about Fitzgerald's writings

Fitzgerald Movies:

• The movie adaptations
• Films with or about Fitzgerald

New release: The Cruise of the Rolling Junk

In the summer of 1920, three months after he got married, F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda embarked on a 1,200-mile trip from their home in Westport, Connecticut to Montgomery, Alabama to pay her parents a surprise visit. He later chronicled the eight-day journey in the travelogue 'The Cruise of the Rolling Junk'. Fitzgerald's writing conveys an acute sense of time and place and creates a lively impression of the adventure that traveling across the United States by car once was on the reader's mind. But even though the piece is set firmly it its era, it's remarkable how contemporary Fitzgerald's narrative feels. Part of that is the endearingly self-deprecating manner with which he portrays himself and his wife: 'Zelda held Dr. Jones' Guide Book on her lap and gave me turning instructions as soon as - or almost immediately after - we reached each turning.' Certainly not one of Fitzgerald's greatest stories, but probably one of the funniest.

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