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The Great Gatsby was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. “In the years immediately after the completion of The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald was unable to provide his art with any such endorsement” (Collins). Fitzgerald was unable to get his book published because of insufficient funds. According to Harris, “F Scott Fitzgerald wrote his greatest novel in France in 1924, having exiled himself in order to get some work done” (Harris). The best novel Fitzgerald has written he wrote when he was in France. According to Kenneth, “The hard work was the eleven stories and articles Fitzgerald wrote in six months to get himself out of debt after the failure of The Vegetable.”(Kenneth). F. Scott Fitzgerald was a very hardworking author when his book The Vegetable became a failure. It took him eleven stories and articles written in six months to get him out of debt.

Also according to Harris, “But during those ten months of intense writing, he thought his way back to the parties, quarrels, hopes and disappointments of his life with Zelda and their friends on Long Island in the feted and fateful year of 1922” (Harris). When Fitzgerald was writing the book he remembered his entire lie with Zelda which helped inspire him while he was writing The Great Gatsby. Kenneth has stated, “The Great Gatsby is Fitzgerald’s best work, his most highly satisfactory novel. In recent years, it has been put forward by many critics as the best novel of Fitzgerald’s generation” (Kenneth). One of the best books Fitzgerald has ever written is The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald discusses several different characters in his book The Great Gatsby. Some of the main characters that Fitzgerald uses in his book are Gatsby, Daisy, and Nick.

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...ew York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2004. 109-124. Literature Resources from Gale. Web. 14 Jan. 2014.

Collins, Angus P. "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Homosexuality and the Genesis of Tender Is the Night." Journal of Modern Literature 13.1 (Mar. 1986): 167-171. Rpt. in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Ed. Kathy D. Darrow. Vol. 280. Detroit: Gale, 2013. Literature Resources from Gale. Web. 14 Jan. 2014.

Doreski, C. K. "Fitzgerald, F. Scott 1896—1940." American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies, Retrospective Supplement 1. Ed. A. Walton Litz and Molly Weigel. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998. 97-120. Literature Resources from Gale. Web. 14 Jan. 2014.

Fitzgerald, F.Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York, NY: Scribner, 2013. Print.

Harris, Alexandra. "Cocktails at dawn." New Statesman [1996] 7 June 2013: 41. Literature Resources from Gale. Web. 14 Jan. 2014.

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