Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an iconic American novelist, essayist, and short story writer widely regarded as one of the greatest authors of the 20th century. He is best known for chronicling the flamboyance, excess, and ultimate disillusionment of the Jazz Age—a term he famously coined and popularized. Alongside peers like Ernest Hemingway, he was a defining figure of the “Lost Generation” of American expatriate writers who came of age during World War I.