Underworld murder-accused Andre Naudé, 55, was shot dead in Cape Town on Thursday afternoon. He died at the scene of the shooting in Parow. His co-accused, Jerome ‘Donkie’ Booysen, who was at the ...

Gatsby’s lavish parties and obsessive pursuit of love mirror Fitzgerald’s real-life struggle with class, insecurity and the painful gap between who he was and who he hoped to become ...

Michigan Prom Our 10 favorite photos from Ypsilanti Community’s ‘Great Gatsby’ prom Published: May. 12, 2025, 10:47 a.m. 96 1/96 Ypsilanti Community 2025 prom ...

Fitzgerald’s characters consume conspicuously. In The Great Gatsby, which celebrates this year the 100 th anniversary of its initial publication, no one toils in a factory or on a farm.

In the spring of 1940, F. Scott Fitzgerald was worried about “The Great Gatsby.” It had been fifteen years since the novel was published, and the author had little to show for it. “My God I ...

For many, "The Great Gatsby" is indeed the Great American Novel. "It sounds silly, but I wish Scott could be here, I just think he'd be so thrilled," said Hazard, "and surprised.

Daisy Buchanan’s loathsome husband is murdered early on in Claire Anderson-Wheeler’s mystery novel that is timed to capitalise on the centenary of The Great Gatsby, which fell on April 10 ...

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 ...

Fitzgerald and King met Jan. 4, 1915, at a sledding party in St. Paul, Minnesota, his hometown. She was 16 and visiting her roommate from the ultra-posh Westover School in Middlebury, Connecticut.

Also, the Midtown bar Oscar Wilde is throwing an all-day Gatsby -themed soirée, replicating the Roaring Twenties, with lots of music (DJ, 6 p.m. to 11 p.m.) and extravagant cocktails.

By the 1970s, The Great Gatsby was a near-universal part of the American high school curriculum; its characters became shorthand for the uniquely American struggle between personal freedom and ...