But you might have missed the poetry, the reflections on power and corruption and the contemporary relevance of an American classic. Jonah Raskin is the author of Beat Blues, San Francisco, 1955 ...

In the spring of 1940, F. Scott Fitzgerald was worried about “The Great Gatsby.” It had been fifteen years since the novel was published, and the author had little to show for it. “My God I ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" at 100 07:21. Dotting the water's edge of Long Island's Manhasset Bay, the opulence of the homes speaks for itself.

If you polled 100 people about who is the awfullest among the awful people in “The Great Gatsby,” I bet 99 of them would answer “that louse Tom Buchanan.” In ...

In 1951, a blind 65-year-old man named Max Gerlach was listening to the radio when something jolted him to attention. A guest had come on who had just published a biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald ...

A century on, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s great Jazz Age novel still speaks to what ails America. Robert Redford in The Great Gatsby (1974). Toward the end of his life, F. Scott Fitzgerald, consumed ...

Dancers Ellie Lehman, left, and Julia Zakharkiv pose with guests celebrating the 100th anniversary of 'The Great Gatsby' at The Empire Steakhouse Thursday, April 10, 2025 in Manhattan, New York.

One day in 1937, F. Scott Fitzgerald stepped into a Los Angeles bookstore hoping to grab a copy of The Great Gatsby. Scouring the shelves, he couldn’t find anything with his name on it. He ...

Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, a top contender for the title of Great American Novel, turns 100 on April 10. A century later, it is invoked to help make sense of a world that still ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald would be flabbergasted to hear that on the 100th anniversary of its publication, “The Great Gatsby” is being celebrated around the world. Fitzgerald knew that he had ...

Each year, 100 years after its publication this month in April 1925, “The Great Gatsby” sells around half a million copies, but at the time of Fitzgerald’s death in 1940, it had sold fewer ...

When it was first released, critics loved "The Great Gatsby" — but it went over the heads of readers. The story had better luck as a Broadway play, in 1926.