"He stretched his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky. "I know myself," he cried, "but that is all —"
About F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American novelist and short-story writer associated with the Jazz Age, best known for his novel The Great Gatsby, which critiques the American Dream. His work captured the excesses and disillusionment of 1920s America.
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