About the author
F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American novelist and short-story writer whose fiction helped name and define the Jazz Age. He wrote about glamour from inside its light and about money, class, longing, and self-invention from just beyond its reach.
Gatsby has built his entire life as an instrument for reaching her — the house, the fortune, the parties, even the persona. Fitzgerald sets the romance against the careless world of the very rich, where Tom's brutality and Daisy's charm do real damage, and the people with money retreat into it while others pay.
Where to start
Start with The Great Gatsby. A self-made millionaire throws legendary parties across the bay from the woman he cannot have.
