What collection of short stories did Fitzgerald publish in 1920?

F. Scott Fitzgerald published Flappers and Philosophers in 1920 as his first collection of short stories.

The book appeared in September 1920 through Charles Scribner’s Sons, shortly after the success of Fitzgerald’s debut novel, This Side of Paradise. It contains eight stories, including “The Ice Palace,” “Bernice Bobs Her Hair,” “The Offshore Pirate,” and “Head and Shoulders.”

Most of the stories had first appeared in magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, Scribner’s Magazine, and The Smart Set. Fitzgerald’s early commercial success came largely from short fiction, and magazines paid him handsomely for stories aimed at the interests and anxieties of young Americans after World War I.

A common mix-up is Tales of the Jazz Age, another Fitzgerald story collection, which was published in 1922. Taps at Reveille came later, in 1935, while All the Sad Young Men appeared in 1926. The title Flappers and Philosophers captures the contrast between the era’s fashionable young women and its more reflective, idealistic characters.