Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 - December 21,1940) was an American author of books and short tales, whose works have been glimpsed as evocative of the Jazz Age, a period he himself supposedly coined. He is considered as one of the utmost twentieth 100 years writers. Fitzgerald was of the self-styled "Lost Generation," Americans born in the 1890s who came of age throughout World War I. He completed four books, left a fifth unfinished, and composed dozens of short tales that heal topics of youth, despair, and age (Richard pp.56-70).