Publication of The Great Gatsby

Date: April 10, 1925 • Location: Washington, United States

The Great Gatsby (cover pictured), a novel by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald, was first published by Scribner's.

The Great Gatsby is a 1925 tragedy novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with Jay Gatsby, a mysterious millionaire obsessed with reuniting with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.