When Jazz Age celebrity couple F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald lived in Alabama

When Jazz Age celebrity couple F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald lived in Alabama

F. Scott Fitzgerald – whose best-known work “The Great Gatsby” was published 100 years ago – and his wife, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, rented a home in Montgomery, Ala., in 1931.

Gatsby the eternal, Gatsby the great

F. Scott Fitzgerald was an unlikely candidate to write America’s greatest novel.

‘The Great Gatsby’ got a bad review in America. A century later, how do we see F. Scott Fitzgerald?

F. Scott Fitzgerald was not a favorite of America's editors for many years, but they all read 'Gatsby.' Everyone reads 'Gatsby.'

When Francis Scott Fitzgerald's novel came out a hundred years ago, it was a total failure, much to the dismay of the author, who died in 1940. It revealed itself to the world...

Was The Great Gatsby’s titular character a Black man who pas...

Was The Great Gatsby’s titular character a Black man who passed for white? “To read the novel without presupposing any character’s whiteness is to discover which characters are identified as white and which are not.” 💬 Join the discussion on kottke.org →

'Alcohol would become his time machine'—Gatsby: Death of an Irishman - Books Ireland

An extract from Gatsby: Death of an Irishman, by Patrick O’Sullivan Greene Gatsby: Death of an Irishman (Wordwell) delivers a compelling new insight into the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald and the genesis of The Great Gatsby Before Fitzgerald commenced writing the novel, he explained his artistic goal to Perkins, ‘I want to write something new – something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned.’ In a letter to an admirer, …