The Great Gatsby was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. “In the years immediately following the completion of The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald was unable to provide such approval for his art” (Collins). Fitzgerald was unable to publish his book due to insufficient funds. According to Harris, “F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote his greatest novel in France in 1924, after going into exile to work” (Harris). The best novel Fitzgerald wrote he wrote while he was in France. According to Kenneth, "the hard work was the eleven stories and articles Fitzgerald wrote in six months to get out of debt after The Vegetal's failure." » (Kenneth). F. Scott Fitzgerald was a very hardworking author when his book The Vegetal became a failure. It took him eleven stories and articles written in six months to get out of debt. Still according to Harris, “But during those ten months of intense writing, he thought about the parties, the quarrels, the hopes and disappointments of his life. with Zelda and their friends on Long Island in the celebrated and fateful year of 1922” (Harris). When Fitzgerald was writing the book, he remembered his whole lie with Zelda, which inspired him while he was writing The Great Gatsby. Kenneth said: “The Great Gatsby is Fitzgerald's best work, his most satisfying novel. In recent years it has been heralded by many critics as the best novel of the Fitzgerald generation” (Kenneth). One of the best books Fitzgerald ever wrote is The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald talks about 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. In the book The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald disc...... middle of paper ......ew York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2004 109-124. Gale Literary Resources. Internet. January 14, 2014. Collins, Angus P. “F. Scott Fitzgerald: Homosexuality and the Genesis of Tender Is the Night.” Journal of Modern Literature 13.1 (March 1986): 167-171. Rep. in 20th century literary criticism. Ed. Kathy D. Darrow. Flight. 280. Detroit: Gale, 2013. Gale Library Resources. Internet. January 14, 2014.Doreski, CK "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. Gale Literary Resources. Internet. January 14, 2014.Fitzgerald, F.Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York, NY: Scribner, 2013. Print. Harris, Alexandra. “Cocktails at dawn.” New Statesman [1996] June 7, 2013: 41. Gale Literary Resources. Internet. January 14. 2014.