In 1925, a tragic tale of striving featuring an enigmatic millionaire was published – and it bombed. Since then, its ...

He gushed about the book so much that my father nicknamed him “Gatz ... on roads that celebrate the novel -- Gatsby Lane in Kings Point and Great Gatsby Way (aka Middle Neck Road) in Great ...

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

Not only did he know Fitzgerald, he said, but he inspired his masterpiece.  “I’m the real Jay Gatsby,” he declared. At the time, no one paid Gerlach — a former car mechanic who had fallen on hard ...