The major works
Five novels, from the debut that made his name to the Hollywood story he left unfinished.
1920
Fitzgerald's debut, written at twenty-three and an overnight sensation. It follows Amory Blaine from the eating clubs of Princeton to the disillusion of the years after the Great War, and was the first novel to put a restless, pleasure-seeking younger generation on the page.
1922
Anthony Patch and his beautiful wife Gloria wait out their twenties on the promise of an inheritance, certain that brilliance excuses them from work. A portrait of a glittering marriage worn thin by money, idleness, and time.
1925
Jay Gatsby throws the most lavish parties on Long Island, all to win back the one woman he could never keep. Narrated by Nick Carraway across a single summer, it endures as the great American novel of longing and reinvention.
1934
On the beaches of the French Riviera, the charming psychiatrist Dick Diver and his wife Nicole preside over a glamorous expatriate set, until the source of their money and the cracks in their marriage rise to the surface. Fitzgerald's most personal novel.
1941, unfinished
Modeled on the Hollywood producer Irving Thalberg, Monroe Stahr runs a studio at the height of the picture business while his own health fails. Fitzgerald died before finishing it, and the manuscript was published the year after his death.