F. Scott Fitzgerald bibliography


Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s. He finished four novels: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender Is the Night. A fifth, unfinished novel, The Last Tycoon, was published posthumously. Fitzgerald also wrote many short stories that treat themes of youth and promise along with age and despair.

Novels

TitlePublicationNotesE-text
This Side of ParadiseScribners, 1920Wikisource
The Beautiful and DamnedScribners, 1922Wikisource
The Great GatsbyScribners, 1925Wikisource;
Tender Is the NightScribners, 1934Original version
Version edited by Malcolm Cowley
The Last Tycoon
The Love of the Last Tycoon
Scribners, 1941
Cambridge University, 1993
Unfinished; published posthumously
Version edited by Edmund Wilson
Version edited by Matthew Bruccoli

Short stories

1920–1924

TitlePublicationCollected inE-text
"Porcelain and Pink"The Smart Set Tales of the Jazz Age Read
"Head and Shoulders"The Saturday Evening Post Flappers and Philosophers Read
"Benediction"The Smart Set Flappers and Philosophers Read
"Dalyrimple Goes Wrong"The Smart Set Flappers and Philosophers Read
"Myra Meets His Family"The Saturday Evening Post The Price Was High
"Mister Icky"The Smart Set Tales of the Jazz Age Read
"The Camel’s Back"The Saturday Evening Post Tales of the Jazz Age Read
"Bernice Bobs Her Hair"The Saturday Evening Post Flappers and Philosophers Read
"The Ice Palace"The Saturday Evening Post Flappers and Philosophers Read
"The Offshore Pirate"The Saturday Evening Post Flappers and Philosophers Read
"The Cut-Glass Bowl"Scribner’s Magazine Flappers and Philosophers Read
"The Four Fists"Scribner’s Magazine Flappers and Philosophers Read
"The Smilers"The Smart Set The Price Was High
"May Day"The Smart Set Tales of the Jazz Age Read
"The Jelly-Bean"Metropolitan Magazine Tales of the Jazz Age Read
"The Lees of Happiness"Chicago Sunday Tribune Tales of the Jazz Age Read
"Jemina"Vanity Fair Tales of the Jazz Age Read
"O Russet Witch!"Metropolitan Magazine Tales of the Jazz Age Read
"The Popular Girl"The Saturday Evening Post Bits of Paradise
"Two for a Cent"Metropolitan Magazine The Price Was High
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"Collier’s Tales of the Jazz Age Read
"The Diamond as Big as the Ritz"The Smart Set Tales of the Jazz Age Read
"Winter Dreams"Metropolitan Magazine All the Sad Young Men Read
"Dice, Brassknuckles & Guitar"Hearst's International Cosmopolitan The Price Was High
"Hot & Cold Blood"Hearst’s International Cosmopolitan All the Sad Young Men
"Gretchen’s Forty Winks"The Saturday Evening Post All the Sad Young Men
"Diamond Dick and
the First Law of Woman"
Hearst’s International Cosmopolitan The Price Was High
"The Third Casket"The Saturday Evening Post The Price Was High
"Absolution"The American Mercury All the Sad Young Men
"The Sensible Thing"Liberty All the Sad Young Men
"The Unspeakable Egg"The Saturday Evening Post The Price Was High
"John Jackson's Arcady"The Saturday Evening Post The Price Was High

Cambridge Edition

Cambridge University Press published the complete works of F. Scott Fitzgerald in annotated editions.

''[The Great Gatsby]''

  1. The Great Gatsby |
  2. Trimalchio: An Early Version of The Great Gatsby |
  3. The Great Gatsby: An Edition of the Manuscript |
  4. The Great Gatsby: A Variorum Edition |

Other books

The Love of the Last Tycoon: A Western | This Side of Paradise Flappers and Philosophers | Tales of the Jazz Age | My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920–1940 | All The Sad Young Men | The Beautiful and Damned | The Lost Decade: Short Stories from Esquire, 1936–1941 | The Basil, Josephine, and Gwen Stories | Spires and Gargoyles: Early Writings, 1909–1919 | Tender Is the Night | Taps at Reveille | A Change of Class | Last Kiss |

Adaptations

Film
Television
Opera

Lost manuscripts

In 2004, the University of South Carolina purchased a newly discovered cache of 2,000 pages of screenplay work that Fitzgerald wrote for MGM while in Hollywood. The cache demonstrates that Fitzgerald put considerable effort into his attempts at screenwriting during his final years. He approached each screenplay assignment by MGM as if it were a novel, and he wrote extensive back-stories for every character before typing a single word of dialogue. Despite these herculean efforts, the studio nonetheless found his work unsatisfactory and chose not to renew his contract.
In 2015, The Strand Magazine published an 8,000-word lost manuscript by Fitzgerald entitled "Temperature", dated July 1939. Long thought lost, the manuscript was found by a researcher in Princeton's archives. The story recounts the illness and decline of an alcoholic writer among Hollywood idols in Los Angeles while suffering lingering fevers and indulging in light-hearted romance with a Hollywood actress. Two years later, Scribner's published a rediscovered cache of Fitzgerald's short stories in a collection titled I'd Die For You.
In 2018, a new story featuring Pat Hobby was found in the Fitzgerald Papers at Princeton University by Anne Margaret Daniel. This typescript was untitled and undated, but it presumably was written in the summer of 1940; it was published in 2025 in The New Yorker with the title "Double Time For Pat Hobby".

Works cited

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