Publisher's Synopsis
"Bernice Bobs Her Hair" is a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was first published in May 1920 in the Saturday Evening Post.[1][2] The original publication was illustrated by May Wilson Preston.[3] The work later appeared in the September 1920 short story collection Flappers and Philosophers.[4][5]Decades after its publication, literary critic Orville Prescott of The New York Times hailed the work in 1951 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