While I share a birthday with F. Scott Fitzgerald, ... B. Scott McLendon joined New Times staff in 2025. A national award-winning journalist, he previously covered education, ...

But when the stock market crashed in ’29 and the Depression of the 1930s hit families hard, F. Scott Fitzgerald, the great Jazz Age novelist, fell out of favor with the literati and the populi.

F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" at 100 07:21. Dotting the water's edge of Long Island's Manhasset Bay, the opulence of the homes speaks for itself.

F. Scott Fitzgerald's grave in Rockville, Maryland. (Courtesy JayHenry, Wikimedia Commons) Idaho is where you would have to go to see Ernest Hemingway’s grave.

When F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote "The Great Gatsby" at the height of the roaring '20s, he couldn't possibly realize that the book would emerge as one of the very top contenders for "the great ...

The themes of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” — wealth inequality and social aspirations — remain strikingly relevant. This month marks its 100th birthday. A century after its ...

Minnesota native F. Scott Fitzgerald created North Dakota's most famous fictional character 100 years ago this spring. Fitzgerald's full name was Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald.

To celebrate Gatsby's 100th birthday, the Minnesota Historical Society has a new exhibit titled, "That's My Middle West: F. Scott Fitzgerald's St. Paul" opening on March 20.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s statue — and stature. The author’s likeness was stolen. His legacy endures. By Editorial Board. The Minnesota Star Tribune. February 17, 2025 at 9:32PM.

A statue of famed novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald was stolen from outside a Minnesota building where he once attended school, police said. The statue, which had been located outside the Academy ...

The final year of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s life was both a tragedy and, in a more obscure sense, a triumph. Fitzgerald, who died of a heart attack at 44 in 1940, was sober and writing well when he died, ...