F. Scott Fitzgerald

He was one of the most distinctive voices of the Jazz Age and became a symbol of the entire era. He rose to fame with the novel The Great Gatsby, in which he captured with extraordinary sensitivity both the dazzling allure of the American Dream and the bitterness of its collapse. He also helped shape the image of his generation through his tumultuous relationship with Zelda and his bohemian lifestyle, which imbued his prose with elegance, fragility, and melancholy.