'The Great Gatsby' was written by:

Scott Fitzgerald. "The Great Gatsby" is a novel by the American writer Francis Scott Fitzgerald, published in April 1925. It is often called one of the greatest American novels.

About the novel:

• It is set in the summer of 1922 on Long Island, near New York, during the "Roaring Twenties" or "Jazz Age", a time of wealth, parties and changing social values.
• It is narrated by Nick Carraway, a young man from the Midwest who rents a house next to the mansion of the mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby.
• Gatsby throws lavish parties in the hope of winning back Daisy Buchanan, a woman he loved years earlier, who is now married to the rich and arrogant Tom Buchanan.
• The story ends in tragedy when Gatsby is killed after a series of events involving Daisy, Tom and others.
• The green light at the end of Daisy's dock, which Gatsby gazes at, symbolises his hopes and the "American Dream".
• The novel explores wealth, class, love, illusion and the decline of the American Dream.
• It has been adapted many times, including a 1974 film with Robert Redford and a 2013 film with Leonardo DiCaprio (in which Amitabh Bachchan played a small role).

About F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940):

He was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.

He is known as the chronicler of the "Jazz Age", a term he popularised.

His other works include "This Side of Paradise" (1920), "The Beautiful and Damned" (1922) and "Tender Is the Night" (1934).

He was married to Zelda Sayre, also a writer.

Other famous American writers of the period:

• Ernest Hemingway: "The Sun Also Rises", "A Farewell to Arms", "The Old Man and the Sea" (Pulitzer 1953); Nobel Prize 1954.
• John Steinbeck: "The Grapes of Wrath", "Of Mice and Men"; Nobel Prize 1962.
• William Faulkner: "The Sound and the Fury", "As I Lay Dying"; Nobel Prize 1949.

Why not the other options?

• ✗Ernest Hemingway wrote "The Old Man and the Sea".
• ✗John Steinbeck wrote "The Grapes of Wrath".
• ✗William Faulkner wrote "As I Lay Dying".