Collier's was an American general interest magazine founded in 1888 by Peter Fenelon Collier. It was launched as Collier's Once a Week, then renamed in 1895 as Collier's Weekly: An Illustrated Journal, shortened in 1905 to Collier's: The National Weekly and eventually to simply Collier's. The magazine ceased publication with the issue dated the week ending January 4, 1957, although a brief, failed attempt was made to revive the Collier's name with a new magazine in 2012.
The cover of the November 29, 1913 edition of Collier's featuring an illustration by Alonzo Myron Kimball
A January 6, 1898 Collier's Weekly advertisement announcing new magazine features, including an increase in pages, more illustrations, new departments, and the beginning of Henry James's novella The Turn of the Screw
Photography by Jimmy Hare on the cover of the March 19, 1898 issue of Collier's Weekly
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age—a term he popularized in his short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age. During his lifetime, he published four novels, four story collections, and 164 short stories. Although he achieved temporary popular success and fortune in the 1920s, Fitzgerald received critical acclaim only after his death and is now widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.
Portrait of Scott and Zelda by Alfred Cheney Johnston, 1923
Passport photos of the Fitzgeralds, 1923
Fitzgerald's 1923 play, The Vegetable, was an unmitigated disaster and hurt his finances.