Runner-up for The BBC Big Read Top 100 2003. Shortlisted for BBC Big Read Top 100 2003.

F Scott Fitzgerald was born in Minnesota in 1896. He was said to have epitomized the Jazz Age, which he himself denied emphatically. In the 1920s he married Zelda Sayre. Their traumatic marriage and subsequent breakdowns became the leading influencein his writing, which included TENDER IS THE NIGHT, and THE LAST TYCOON (his last, unfinished work), plus six volumes of short stories. He died suddenly in 1940.