Irish-American Writers
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Born to an upper-middle-class Irish-Catholic family in St. Paul, Minnesota, F. Scott Fitzgerald was named after Francis Scott Key, his famous second cousin, three times removed. Known for his breezy, witty style with theme of promise, disillusionment, and the idealism of the American character, Fitzgerald finished four novels, This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and the Damned, Tender is the Night, and The Great Gatsby. A fifth novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon, was published posthumously, although it was unfinished. Fitzgerald also penned many celebrated short stories. Hugely popular, Fitzgerald is widely regarded as one of the 20th century's greatest writers, and the seminal writer of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself.
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