The Great Gatsby - Paperback

F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1896. He attended Princeton University, joined the United States Army during World War I, and published his first novel, This Side of Paradise, in 1920. That same year he married Zelda Sayre and for the next decade the couple lived in New York, Paris, and on the Riviera. Fitzgerald's masterpieces include The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender Is the Night. He died at the age of forty-four while working on The Last Tycoon. Fitzgerald's fiction has secured his reputation as one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century.

Sarah Churchwell is Professor in American Literature and Chair of Public Understanding of the Humanities at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. She is the author of several books on American literature and cultural history, and her journalism has been published internationally. An experienced broadcaster, she has frequently contributed to radio, television, and documentary film projects, and has judged many literary prizes, including the Booker Prize. She co-won the 2015 Eccles British Library Writer's Award and was longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Journalism in 2021.