Introduction [excerpt] One of the most popular American authors of the Jazz Age is F. Scott Fitzgerald. A man who became somewhat more of a legend, scholars and citizens alike study Fitzgerald not only for his own sensational life but also for the characters he created who, some would argue, imitate that life. Fitzgerald lived through a sensational decade, the 1920s, which Matthew J. Bruccoli, a renowned Fitzgerald scholar and literary historian, appropriately describes, "The Twenties have been called a...