Publisher's Synopsis
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is a short story written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was first published in Collier's Magazine on May 27, 1922, with the cover and illustrations by James Montgomery Flagg. It was subsequently anthologized in Fitzgerald's 1922 book Tales of the Jazz Age, which is occasionally published as The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories. The story was later adapted into the 2008 namesake film and the 2019 stage musical. In 1860 Baltimore, Benjamin is born with the physical appearance of a 70-year-old man, already capable of speech.
