Fitzgerald and the Writing of Short StoriesAlthough Fitzgerald is generally considered a novelist today, during his lifetime he was best known for his short stories. He was a prolific writer of short stories, publishing around 160 (Bruccoli xiii). Many literary critics often separate “Fitzgerald the novelist” from “Fitzgerald the short story writer.” In his life, Fitzgerald felt something of a disconnect between his "literary" career as a novelist and his more professional career as a short story writer. However, Fitzgerald's short stories are very important for the study of his work. You can observe his development as a writer and see parallels between his stories and his novels. Writing short stories was much more profitable for Fitzgerald than writing novels, which brought in only very meager income. For example, in 1929, 8 short stories brought him $30,000, while all of this year's profits from his novels brought him only $31.77 (Bruccoli, xiv). Fitzgerald depended on the money he earned from his stories to have time to work on his novels, and he resented this greatly. As Hemingway writes in A Moveable Feast, Fitzgerald told him in 1925 that writing short stories for popular magazines was "prostitution, but he had to do it because he made money from the magazines to have money upfront to write decent books" (qtd. in Mangum 57). Fitzgerald felt that writing for popular magazines discredited him as a true literary writer. He also felt that his short stories took time and energy away from his novels. Many literary critics of his time did not consider his stories to be quality writing. They have criticized them for being too light on topic and for being in... middle of the paper... is a useful resource for locating publication dates of short stories, as well as a resource for which short stories are included in the many published collections . Mangum, B. “F. Scott Fitzgerald” Critical survey of short fiction. Ed. Frank Magill. Salem: SalemPress, Inc., 1982. Available online: .This article provides brief synopses of Fitzgerald's major short stories, other literary forms, his influence, and the characteristics of his short stories. Additionally, there is an in-depth analysis of Fitzgerald's short story writing career.---. "The Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald." The Cambridge Companion toF. Scott Fitzgerald. Ed. Ruth Prigozy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 57-78.