The classic as past and prologue. A century ago, on April 10, 1925, The Great Gatsby was published by Scribner. One month later, Carl Van Vechten, a novelist, photographer, and Zelig-like ...

That we’re still talking about The Great Gatsby would have surprised its author. When Fitzgerald died in 1940, copies of the second printing were still piled up unsold. - Today, Scribner sells ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, published 100 years ago this week, was not popular in the author’s lifetime. But it has come to embody American aspiration.