The document provides biographical information about author F. Scott Fitzgerald, known for chronicling the Jazz Age of the 1920s in novels like This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, and The Great Gatsby. It notes that Fitzgerald was born in 1896, died in 1940 at age 44, and was married to Zelda Sayre with whom he had one daughter. Details are also given about his most famous novel, The Great Gatsby, written in 1924-1925, which follows protagonist Jay Gatsby in his pursuit of his love Daisy amid the lavish parties of 1920s New York.