F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald fue un reconocido autor estadounidense, nacido en St. Paul, Minnesota, en 1896. Se le considera ampliamente como uno de los mayores escritores del siglo XX, particularmente conocido por su evocativa descripción de la época del Jazz. Fitzgerald formó parte de la Generación Perdida, un término utilizado para describir a los estadounidenses nacidos en la década de 1890 que alcanzaron la madurez durante la Primera Guerra Mundial. Sus obras abordaron temas como la juventud, el desánimo y la edad, reflejando el desencanto de su generación.

La crianza de Fitzgerald tuvo una gran influencia en su carrera literaria. Fue nombrado en honor a su segundo primo, Frances Scott Key, quien escribió la letra del himno nacional de los Estados Unidos. Después de asistir a una escuela preparatoria, Fitzgerald se matriculó en la Universidad de Princeton, donde escribió para la revista humorística del colegio, el Princeton Tiger. Sin embargo, abandonó Princeton antes de graduarse, después de ser puesto en libertad condicional académica. Fue durante este tiempo que conoció a Ginerva King, quien más tarde sirvió como su inspiración para los personajes en sus novelas.

La vida personal de Fitzgerald fue tan dramática como sus novelas. Mientras se encontraba en Alabama durante su servicio militar, conoció a su futura esposa, Zelda. Su relación estuvo marcada por los problemas de salud mental de Zelda, lo que tuvo un gran impacto en la escritura de Fitzgerald. Contrajeron matrimonio en 1920 y tuvieron una hija, Frances Scott Fitzgerald, en 1921. Las experiencias de Fitzgerald con Zelda y su extravagante estilo de vida durante la era del Jazz proporcionaron material rico para sus novelas.

El estilo de Fitzgerald era lírico y poético, con una aguda sensibilidad para el lenguaje. Su obra más famosa, El Gran Gatsby, ha sido adaptada en múltiples ocasiones al cine, en 1926, 1949, 1974, 2000 y 2013. La habilidad de Fitzgerald para capturar el espíritu de su tiempo le ha valido un lugar como figura significativa en la literatura estadounidense. A pesar de sus luchas personales y su muerte prematura en 1940, sus obras continúan resonando entre los lectores, ofreciendo una reflexión conmovedora de la era del Jazz y la Generación Perdida.
Novelas independientes
# Título Año
1 This Side of Paradise 1920
2 The Diamond as Big as the Ritz 1922
3 The Beautiful and Damned 1922
4 The Great Gatsby 1926
5 Tender Is the Night 1934
6 The Last Tycoon 1941
7 Trimalchio: An Early Version of The Great Gatsby 2000
8 The Popular Girl 2006
Cuentos cortos/Novelas
# Título Año
1 Babes in the Woods 1919
2 Bernice Bobs Her Hair 1920
3 May Day 1920
4 The Ice Palace 1920
5 The Offshore Pirate 1920
6 Head and Shoulders 1920
7 The Lees of Happiness 1920
8 The Jelly-Bean 1920
9 The Camel's Back 1920
10 Benediction 1920
11 Myra Meets His Family 1920
12 Mr. Icky & Porcelain and Pink 1920
13 The Four Fists 1920
14 Jemina & Tarquin of Cheapside 1921
15 Winter Dreams 1922
16 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 1922
17 Absolution 1924
18 The Cruise of the Rolling Junk 1924
19 Gretchen's Forty Winks 1924
20 Love in the Night 1925
21 The Rich Boy 1926
22 Magnetism 1928
23 The Night at Chancellorsville 1935
24 Dice, Brassknuckles & Guitar 2018
25 Basil the Freshest Boy 2018
26 What a Handsome Pair ! 2018
Colecciones
# Título Año
1 F. Scott Fitzgerald's St. Paul Plays 1911-14 1914
2 The Apprentice Fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1909-1917 1917
3 Spires and Gargoyles 1919
4 The Short Stories 1920
5 Flappers and Philosophers 1920
6 The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald 1920
7 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Six Other Stories 1921
8 Tales of the Jazz Age 1922
9 The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, and Other Stories 1922
10 Glittering Things: Flappers, Fantasies & Tales of the Jazz Age 1922
11 The Best Early Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald 1924
12 All the Sad Young Men 1926
13 The Basil and Josephine Stories 1928
14 Babylon Revisited and Other Stories 1931
15 The St. Paul Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald 1931
16 The Fantasy And Mystery Stories Of F. Scott Fitzgerald 1935
17 Taps at Reveille 1935
18 The Lost Decade and other stories 1939
19 Poems 1911-1940 1940
20 The Pat Hobby Stories 1940
21 Bits of Paradise (With: Zelda Fitzgerald) 1973
22 The Price Was High 1979
23 Collected Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald 1983
24 Afternoon of an Author 1987
25 Before Gatsby 2001
26 On Booze 2011
27 Gatsby Girls 2013
28 The Love Boat and Other Stories 2015
29 Mystery & Fantasy Stories 2015
30 I'd Die for You and Other Lost Stories 2017
31 The Beautiful And Damned And Other Stories 2019
32 All of the Belles 2020
33 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Stories 2020
Libros de no ficción
# Título Año
1 The Crack-Up 1936
2 As ever, Scott Fitz 1940
3 Dear Scott/Dear Max 1971
4 The Notebooks of F. Scott Fitzgerald 1978
5 A Life in Letters 1980
6 Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda 1985
7 Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda (With: Zelda Fitzgerald) 1985
8 The Sayings of F. Scott Fitzgerald 1995
9 On Authorship 1996
10 A Short Autobiography 2011
11 Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald 2003
12 Dreams of Youth 2011
13 The Thoughtbook of F. Scott Fitzgerald 2013
Literary Conversations Books
# Título Año
1 Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges 1969
2 Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz 1981
3 Conversations with Graham Greene 1983
4 Conversations with Eudora Welty 1985
5 Conversations with Walker Percy 1985
6 Conversations With Isaac Bashevis Singer 1985
7 Conversations with William Styron 1985
8 Conversations with Malcolm Cowley 1986
9 Conversations with Lillian Hellman 1986
10 Conversations with Tennessee Williams 1986
11 Conversations with Ernest Hemingway 1986
12 Conversations with Katherine Anne Porter 1987
13 Truman Capote: Conversations 1987
14 Conversations with Flannery O'Connor 1987
15 Conversations with Peter Taylor 1987
16 Conversations with Arthur Miller 1987
17 Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut 1988
18 Conversations with Edward Albee 1988
19 Conversations with Erskine Caldwell 1988
20 Conversations with Norman Mailer 1988
21 Conversations with Robert Graves 1989
22 Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates 1989
23 Conversations with Shelby Foote 1989
24 Conversations with Robertson Davies 1989
25 Conversations with James Baldwin 1989
26 Conversations with John Gardner 1990
27 Conversations with Richard Wilbur 1990
28 Conversations with Tom Wolfe 1990
29 Conversations with Raymond Carver 1990
30 Conversations with Eugene O'Neill 1990
31 Conversations with Reynolds Price 1991
32 Conversations with Bernard Malamud 1991
33 Conversations with Elizabeth Spencer 1991
34 Conversations with Nikki Giovanni 1992
35 Conversations With Thornton Wilder 1992
36 Conversations with Robert Coles 1992
37 Conversations with M. F. K. Fisher 1992
38 More Conversations with Walker Percy 1993
39 Conversations with Richard Wright 1993
40 Conversations with Paul Bowles 1993
41 Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris 1994
42 Conversations with Amiri Baraka 1994
43 Conversations with Toni Morrison 1994
44 Conversations with Saul Bellow 1994
45 Conversations with Henry Miller 1994
46 Conversations with Ernest Gaines 1995
47 Conversations with Ralph Ellison 1995
48 Conversations with Chester Himes 1995
49 Conversations with Susan Sontag 1995
50 Conversations with Ishmael Reed 1995
51 Conversations with Derek Walcott 1996
52 More Conversations with Eudora Welty 1996
53 Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop 1996
54 Conversations with Pauline Kael 1996
55 Conversations with V. S. Naipaul 1997
56 Conversations with N. Scott Momaday 1997
57 Conversations with Chinua Achebe 1997
58 Conversations with Maxine Hong Kingston 1998
59 Conversations with Denise Levertov 1998
60 Conversations With William Faulkner 1999
61 Conversations with E. L. Doctorow 1999
62 Conversations With John Fowles 1999
63 Conversations with Salman Rushdie 2000
64 Conversations with William S. Burroughs 2000
65 Conversations with Leslie Marmon Silko 2000
66 Conversations with Chaim Potok 2001
67 Conversations with Richard Ford 2001
68 Conversations with Christopher Isherwood 2001
69 Conversations with Mary Gordon 2002
70 Conversations with Jim Harrison 2002
71 Conversations with Clarence Major 2002
72 Conversations with Margaret Walker 2002
73 Conversations with Erica Jong 2002
74 Elie Wiesel: Conversations 2002
75 Joseph Brodsky: Conversations 2003
76 Conversations with Rita Dove 2003
77 Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald 2003
78 Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks 2003
79 Conversations with Stanley Kaufmann 2003
80 Conversations with Gloria Naylor 2004
81 Conversations with Audre Lorde 2004
82 Conversations with Ray Bradbury 2004
83 Conversations With John le Carré 2004
84 Conversations with Isaac Asimov 2005
85 Conversations with Don DeLillo 2005
86 Conversations with Gore Vidal 2005
87 Conversations with Robert Penn Warren 2005
88 Conversations with Jack Kerouac 2005
89 Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez 2005
90 Conversations with Thomas McGuane 2006
91 Conversations with Larry Brown 2007
92 Conversations with Sonia Sanchez 2007
93 Conversations with Wendell Berry 2007
94 Conversations with Leon Forrest 2007
95 Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro 2008
F. Scott Fitzgerald Anthologies
# Título Año
1 Short Story Masterpieces: 35 Classic American and British Stories from the First Half of the 20th Century 1954
2 The Oxford Book of American Short Stories 1992
3 First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers 1994
4 Writing New York 1998
5 The Best American Short Stories of the Century 2000
6 40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology 2000
7 Writing Los Angeles 2002
8 The Lost Generation Reader: Expatriate American Writers in Europe, 1900 - 1950 2004
9 50 Classic Novellas 2011
10 Flappers, Jazz, & Bootleg Whiskey 2011
11 Radio Silence 2012
12 Favorite Love Stories 2017
13 Writers: Their Lives and Works 2018
14 The Ultimate Short Story Bundle 2020
15 Woman's Role and Choice in Love 2023