This was true for several books, perhaps, but why did this one breach the ceiling and enter the conversation of the Great American Novel? On the surface, “The Great Gatsby” is about a poor ...

Any books that you might consider for the title Great American Novel? It’s a frequent game in the book world, this Great American Novel contest. I have never been one to participate.

“The Great Gatsby” has never lost its universal appeal, and writers have documented the novel’s undying allure across American culture. It has been referenced in such wildly divergent places ...

"The Great Gatsby," the great American novel, turns 100 04:13. When F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote "The Great Gatsby" at the height of the roaring '20s, he couldn't possibly realize that the book would ...

Our selection does not aspire to be the Great American Shortlist. There are no books by Herman Melville, F. Scott Fitzgerald or Saul Bellow, nor any by Twain, Steinbeck or Jonathan Franzen.

Mason Engel, a Purdue graduate, traveled to 50 states, read 50 books and interviewed 50 authors on what the idea of the "great American novel" means.

Books Great American Novelist James McBride’s latest books don’t look like the usual contenders for the title. That’s precisely why they speak to our moment.

It’s kind of crazy to think about now, but F. Scott Fitzgerald died believing himself to be a failure. Each year, 100 years after its publication this month in April 1925, “The Great Gatsby ...

In the more than 150 years since DeForest started all this, there have been hundreds of Great American Novel contenders and most lists include such writers, such usual suspects, as Ernest ...