F. Scott Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) 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 (his most famous), and Tender Is the Night. A fifth, unfinished novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon, was published posthumously. Fitzgerald also wrote many short stories that treat themes of youth and promise along with age and despair.
Fitzgerald's work has been adapted into films many times. His short story, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, was the basis for a 2008 film. Tender Is the Night was filmed in 1962, and made into a television miniseries in 1985. The Beautiful and Damned was filmed in 1922 and 2010. The Great Gatsby has been the basis for numerous films of the same name, spanning nearly 90 years: 1926, 1949, 1974, 2000, and 2013 adaptations. In addition, Fitzgerald's own life from 1937 to 1940 was dramatized in 1958 in Beloved Infidel.
== Tossup Questions ==
# In one of this author's stories, Kismine hoards rhinestones as a mountain explodes. He used the tubercular Cecilia Starr as the narrator of his unfinished novel about Hollywood, The Last Tycoon. Cecilia is similar to the subject of his nonfiction work The Crack-Up, and, like the character of Nicole Diver in Tender is the Night, was inspired by his wife Zelda. For 10 points, name this writer who wrote about Myrtle Wilson's death in a car accident in a novel set in West Egg, The Great Gatsby.
# This author wrote of Sally Carol Happer, a southern belle who cannot stand the cold and impersonal north of her fiance Harry Bellamy, in his short story "The Ice Palace." In a novel, this author told of Rosemary Hoyt's affair with a psychiatrist who marries his own patient, Nicole. This author, who created Dick Diver in Tender is the Night, wrote another work that is narrated by Nick Carraway. In that novel, George Wilson shoots the title character, who tries to rekindle his affair with Daisy Buchanan. For 10 points, name this author of the Jazz Age novel The Great Gatsby.
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