Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940), full name Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, F Scott Fitzgerald in short, was a US novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is known for popularizing the term "Jazz Age" and depicted its flamboyance and excess in his novels.

Wisdom & Quotes

• There are no second acts in American lives.

- The Last Tycoon, Notes

• In the real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning.

- The Hours, in The Crack-Up

• Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

- Notebooks

• Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.

- The Rich Boy

Everett McKinley Dirksen