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'''''The Pat Hobby Stories''''' are a collection of 17 short stories written by [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]], first published by [[Arnold Gingrich]] of ''[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]'' magazine between January 1940 and May 1941,<ref>{{cite book |title=Some Sort of Epic Grandeur: The Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald |author=Matthew Joseph Bruccoli |publisher=[[University of South Carolina Press]] |edition=Revised
Pat Hobby is a down-and-out [[screenwriter]] in [[Hollywood, Los Angeles, California|Hollywood]], once successful as "a good man for structure" during the [[Silent film|silent age]] of cinema, but now reduced to an alcoholic hack hanging around the studio lot. Most stories find him broke and engaged in some ploy for money or a much-desired screen credit, but his antics usually backfire and end in further humiliation.
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