In what year was The Great Gatsby published?

The Great Gatsby was published in 1925.

Charles Scribner’s Sons released Fitzgerald’s novel on April 10, 1925. The book is set during the Jazz Age and centers on Jay Gatsby, whose lavish parties and extravagant lifestyle conceal his longing for Daisy Buchanan. Its narrator, Nick Carraway, provides an outsider’s view of Gatsby’s world of wealth, romance, and social rivalry.

Fitzgerald worked on the novel in Europe after drafting material inspired partly by his experiences on Long Island. He revised the manuscript with editor Maxwell Perkins, and the title went through several possibilities, including Trimalchio in West Egg, before The Great Gatsby was chosen.

The date is sometimes confused with 1922, when Fitzgerald lived near New York’s Long Island and began developing ideas that influenced the novel. It can also be confused with 1926, the year of an early film adaptation. The novel itself appeared in 1925, although its reputation grew slowly and it became a widely recognized classic decades later.