F. Scott Fitzgerald
Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland
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F. Scott Fitzgerald 1896 - 1940 author of The Great Gatsby (1925). Works published while he resided here: Tender Is The Night (1934), Taps At Reville (1935), and essays (1934-1936) later collected in The Crack-Up.
Erected by Bolton Hill Historic District
The Story
While living in Baltimore in the 1930s, F. Scott Fitzgerald—already famous for 'The Great Gatsby'—produced some of his most searching later work. Here he published the novel 'Tender Is the Night' and the essays later gathered as 'The Crack-Up,' written as his own life grew troubled. The city marks this difficult but productive chapter of his career.
Why it matters
Fitzgerald's Baltimore years show the author at his most reflective, deepening the portrait of American ambition and decline that defines his legacy.
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