Flappers and Philosophers

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Flappers and Philosophers is the primary set of short fiction composed by F. Scott Fitzgerald, first published in 1920. It contains eight stories such as: The Offshore Pirate; The Ice Palace; Head and Shoulders; The Cut-Glass Bowl; Bernice Bobs Her Hair; Benediction; Dalyrimple Goes Wrong; and The Four Fists.

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, called proficiently as F. Scott Fitzgerald, was an American author and short fiction writer, whose writings portrayed the Jazz Age. While he accomplished partial prestige during his life, he is presently hugely considered as a few of the best authors in the United States of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is regarded as a member of the Lost Generation of the 1920s. He completed four stories: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender Is the Night. A fifth, incomplete story, The Last Tycoon, was printed after his death. He also wrote 4 sets of short fiction and 164 short fiction in magazines in his time.

He was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, to a higher status middle-class family, Francis was baptized after his renowned second cousin, three times omitted on his paternal side, Francis Scott Key, but was often referred to as simply Scott Fitzgerald. He was also called after his late sister, Louise Scott Fitzgerald, one of two sisters who died soon before he was born. “Well, three months before I was born,” he jotted down as an adult, “my mother lost her other two children … I think I started then to be a writer.”

His other noteworthy writings include Winter Dreams; The Baby Party both in All the Sad Young Men; The Freshest Boy in Taps at Reveille; The Bridal Party; A New Leaf; Crazy Sunday both in Babylon Revisited and Other Stories; The Vegetable, or From President to Postman – Play; The Crack-Up – Collection of essays, notebook excerpts, and letters.
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