The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald A New Collection

Today F. Scott Fitzgerald is better known for his novels, but in his own time, his fame rested squarely on his prolific achievement as one of America's most gifted writers of stories and novellas. Now, a half-century after the author's death, the premier Fitzgerald scholar and biographer, Matthew J. Bruccoli, has assembled in one volume the full scope of Fitzgerald's best short fiction: forty-three sparkling masterpieces, ranging from such classic novellas as "The Rich Boy," "May Day," and "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" to his commercial work for theSaturday Evening Postand its sister "slicks."For the reader, these stories will underscore the depth and extraordinary range of Fitzgerald's literary talents. Furthermore, Professor Bruccoli's illuminating preface and introductory headnotes establish the literary and biographical settings in which these stories now shine anew with brighter luster than ever.

F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1896, in St. Paul, Minnesota. His first novel, This Side of Paradise (1920), earned him immediate critical and financial success. The Great Gatsby (1925) was published while he and his wife, Zelda, lived in France in the midst of the expatriates of the 1920s. Upon their return to America, he completed Tender Is the Night (1934), and he was at work on The Love of the Last Tycoon when he died in Hollywood in 1940.