The story of the writing of The Great Gatsby is a story in itself. Fitzgerald had descended into an alcoholic run of parties on Great Neck, New York, where he and Zelda had taken a home. His main source of income was writing for the “slicks,” or magazines of the day, the main source being the Saturday Evening Post, where Fitzgerald’s name on a story got him as much as $4,000. Then on May 1, 1924, he, Zelda, and baby daughter Scottie quietly slipped away from New York on a “dry” steamer to France, the writer in search of sobriety, sanity, and his muse, resulting in the publication of The Great Gatsby a year later.
The story of the writing of The Great Gatsby is a story in itself. Fitzgerald had descended into an alcoholic run of parties on Great Neck, New York, where he and Zelda had taken a home. His main source of income was writing for the “slicks,” or magazines of the day, the main source being the Saturday Evening Post, where Fitzgerald’s name on a story got him as much as $4,000. Then on May 1, 1924, he, Zelda, and baby daughter Scottie quietly slipped away from New York on a “dry” steamer to France, the writer in search of sobriety, sanity, and his muse, resulting in the publication of The Great Gatsby a year later.
Writing Gatsby: The Real Story of the Writing of the Greatest American Novel
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Writing Gatsby: The Real Story of the Writing of the Greatest American Novel
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781493068036 |
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| Publisher: | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. |
| Publication date: | 10/01/2022 |
| Pages: | 304 |
| Sales rank: | 1,060,772 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.35(w) x 9.32(h) x 1.11(d) |