Tony Rossiter
Now here’s a strange thing. His best known, most highly regarded novel is The Great Gatsby (1925). Yet when F Scott Fitzgerald died in 1940, it was not even mentioned in the Time magazine obituary. During his own lifetime he was known mainly as a short story writer, screenwriter and chronicler of the Jazz Age. He achieved real fame as a writer only posthumously. It’s a stark reminder of how literary fashions can change and reputations can ebb and flow.