“The Great Gatsby” is celebrating its 100th anniversary this month. At the time, no one paid Gerlach — a former car mechanic who had fallen on hard times — any mind.

F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" at 100 07:21. Dotting the water's edge of Long Island's Manhasset Bay, the opulence of the homes speaks for itself.

Teaching ‘The Great Gatsby,’ after 100 years F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel has spent years on high school reading lists. How are literature professors teaching it today?

"The Great Gatsby," the great American novel, turns 100 04:13. When F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote "The Great Gatsby" at the height of the roaring '20s, he couldn't possibly realize that the book would ...

A copy of "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald is displayed June 6, 2013 at Sotheby's in New York. (Don Emmert/AFP via Getty Images) The first review of “The Great Gatsby,” published a ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby,” published 100 years ago this month, is regarded by many scholars and critics as the greatest American novel of the twentieth century. The eloquence ...

Dancers Ellie Lehman, left, and Julia Zakharkiv pose with guests celebrating the 100th anniversary of 'The Great Gatsby' at The Empire Steakhouse Thursday, April 10, 2025 in Manhattan, New York.