How Gatsby Went From Total Flop to Great American Novel

When he published The Great Gatsby 100 years ago this week, F. Scott Fitzgerald thought he'd written the Great American Novel. But it was a commercial flop. The year Fitzgerald died, he received a royalty check for a paltry seven copies. It would take an unlikely series of events to posthumously pluck a masterpiece from obscurity.

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Very special thanks to Molly Guptill Manning. Go check out When Books Went to War.

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