Recently, I was feeling inspired by several posts from the awesome Logical Quotes. I decided that I wanted to turn some of them into a new series!

Here’s the original post that started it all:

• Inspirational F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

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Welcome to my “Awesome Authors” debut. I plan to publish a new post about a different author every few weeks.

Enjoy!

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I first learned about F. Scott Fitzgerald in high school. We had to read The Great Gatsby (1925) for one of my English classes. I quickly fell head over heels for the book, and the man who wrote it. This is one book that I re-read, at least once, every single year.

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After reading this thought-provoking novel, I ended up doing a significant research paper / project on Fitzgerald and his other works.

He published four novels before his death in 1940, including The Great Gatsby, and one was released posthumously.

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This Side of Paradise (1920)

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The Beautiful and the Damned (1922)

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Tender is the Night (1934)

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The Last Tycoon (1941)

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Fitzgerald was also known for his novellas and collections of short stories.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (1922)

• First published in Colliers Magazine
• Later anthologized in Tales of the Jazz Age
• Occasionally published as The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories

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Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)

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While researching for this post, I was excited to learn that a new short story collection is being published in April!

• I’d Die For You. And Other Lost Stories, edited by: Anne Margaret Daniel (New York: Simon & Schuster, April 2017)

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Working on this new series of posts has made me want to add Fitzgerald’s books and stories to my next TBR update. Other than Gatsby, the last time I read his other works was around 2006-2007, and I want to read them from an adult’s perspective, rather than a senior in high school for a class assignment.

Look for the next installment of Awesome Authors some time in February!

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Until the next headline, Laura Beth 🙂