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Acclaimed author, American icon, unapologetic antisemite: 1920s' novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald was all of the above.

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From: Cleveland Jewish News
Date: 20021227
Author:Geduld, Herb

Geduld, Herb
Cleveland Jewish News
12-27-2002
F. Scott Fitzgerald has been called "the most representative novelist of
the American '20s." He has been ranked with Ernest Hemingway, Sinclair
Lewis and John Dos Passos as one of the leading American writers of the
20th century. His third novel, The Great Gatsby, which Fitzgerald wrote in
1924, has been called the most profoundly American novel of its time and is
required reading in most high- school and college English classes.

Although it got off to an uneven start initially, by the end of the
century, The Great Gatsby had sold more than 10 million ...

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