Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Bernice Bobs Her Hair Illustrated Francis Scott Fitzgerald

"Bernice Bobs Her Hair" is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, written in 1920 and first published in the Saturday Evening Post in May of that year.[1][2] The story was illustrated by May Wilson Preston.[3] The story appeared shortly thereafter on September 10, 1920, in Fitzgerald's anthology Flappers and Philosophers.[4][5] In 1951, decades after its publication, literary critic Orville Prescott of The New York Times cited the work as a landmark story "that set social standards for a generation of young Americans, that revealed secrets of popularity and gave wonderful examples of what to say at a dinner table or on the dance floor.