- Eight years after his own death, his wife Zelda Fitzgerald died in a fire at the mental hospital where she was institutionalized.
- Popularized the phrase "the Jazz Age" in reference to the riotous 1920s decade of American history. A later anachronistic phrase to describe this same era, "the Roaring Twenties," would not enter the popular lexicon until the 1940s.
- Was a mentor and close friend of the young Ernest Hemingway, who grew more distant with him as Hemingway's fame grew and Fitzgerald's declined, and he became increasingly more dependent on alcohol. Hemingway disapproved of Fitzgerald's lowering his great talent to write high-priced stories for slick commercial magazines like "The Saturday Evening Post" and his sojourns to Hollywood to make money writing screenplays. Unlike his great contemporaries Fitzgerald, William Faulkner and John Steinbeck, Hemingway never wrote for the movies, but he had no objection to selling his novels and short stories to the studios.
- Had first heart attack at Schwab's Drugstore on Sunset Boulevard in November 1940.
- He moved to Paris in 1924, where he wrote his third novel, "The Great Gatsby". The Fitzgeralds returned to the U.S. in 1930.
- Died of a heart attack in Hollywood while writing "The Last Tycoon", a novel that was published unfinished.
- He tried writing movie scripts but was frustrated by the image-based medium, which he had difficulty comprehending as it was so different from the language-based forms of the novel and short-story that he excelled in.
- Named after Francis Scott Key, a distant relative.
- Father, with Zelda Fitzgerald, of daughter Frances Scott Fitzgerald Smith.
- Irish-American.
- For about a year and a half in the late 1930s, he rented a house from Edward Everett Horton on Horton's "Belly Acres" estate in Encino. The area where the house was is now part of Highway101 (westbound lane). Fitzgerald paid 200 dollars a month rent.
- His first novel, "This Side of Paradise," was written shortly after attending Princeton.
- Buried at St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery in Rockville, Maryland.
- The "Gatsby Style," named for his 1925 novel "The Great Gatsby", was honored on one of fifteen 32¢ U.S. commemorative postage stamps in the Celebrate the Century series, issued 28 May 1998, celebrating the 1920s.
- He was nominated in the 2007 inaugural New Jersey Hall of Fame for his services to literature.
- He was elected into the 2008 New Jersey Hall of Fame for his contributions and services to literature.
- Through his father's Warfield ancestry he is the fourth cousin once removed of Wallis Warfield Simpson who became Duchess of Windsor. Their common ancestors were John Warfield and Judith Gaither who were born in the mid 1600s.
- Portrayed by Malcolm Gets in Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994).
- Appeared on a 23¢ U.S. postage stamp as part of the Literary Arts series, debuting 9/27/96 in St. Paul, Minnesota.
- Attended Princeton University.
- In his essay "Echoes of the Jazz Age," author F. Scott Fitzgerald cites Flaming Youth (1923) as the only film that captured the sexual revolution of the 1920s. He lamented that its runaway success prompted "Hollywood hacks" to create a number of similar but less daring films and to run "the theme into its cinematographic grave.".
- Portrayed by David Hoflin in Z: The Beginning of Everything (2015).
- In 1990, Hofstra University established the F. Scott Fitzgerald Society, which later became an affiliate of the American Literature Association. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the society organized an online reading of This Side of Paradise to mark its centenary.
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