The Great Gatsby was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. “In the years immediately following the completion of The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald was unable to give his art such approval” (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 get some work done” (Harris). The best novel Fitzgerald wrote was written when he was in France. According to Kenneth, "The hard work was the eleven short stories and articles Fitzgerald wrote in six months to free himself from debt after the failure of The Vegetable." (Kenneth). F. Scott Fitzgerald was a very hard-working author when his book The Vegetal became a failure. It took him eleven stories and articles written in six months to free him from debt. Again according to Harris, “But during those ten months of intense writing, he thought back to the parties, the fights, the hopes and disappointments of his life. with Zelda and their friends on Long Island in the fateful and celebrated year of 1922” (Harris). While Fitzgerald was writing the book, he remembered his whole lie with Zelda, which helped inspire him as he wrote The Great Gatsby. Kenneth said: “The Great Gatsby is Fitzgerald's best work, his most satisfying novel. In recent years it has been considered by many critics to be the best novel of Fitzgerald's generation” (Kenneth). One of the best books Fitzgerald ever wrote is The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald talks about several 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. Literary resources from Gale. Network. 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. Rpt. in twentieth-century literary criticism. Ed. Kathy D. Darrow. vol. 280. Detroit: Gale, 2013. Literary Resources from Gale. Network. 14 January 2014. Doreski, C.K. "Fitzgerald, F. Scott 1896-1940." American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies, Retrospective Supplement 1. Ed. A. Walton Litz and Molly Weigel. New York: Sons of Charles Scribner, 1998. 97-120. Literary resources from Gale. Network. January 14, 2014. Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York, NY: Scribner, 2013. Print.Harris, Alexandra. "Cocktails at dawn." New Statesman [1996] 7 June 2013: 41. Literary resources from Gale. Network. January 14. 2014.