Which American writer wrote The Great Gatsby?

The American writer who wrote The Great Gatsby was F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Fitzgerald published the novel in 1925, during the period later associated with the Jazz Age. Set mainly on Long Island in 1922, the story follows Nick Carraway's encounters with Jay Gatsby, a mysterious millionaire trying to reclaim his relationship with Daisy Buchanan. Its themes include social class, inherited wealth, ambition and the limits of the American Dream.

Fitzgerald was born Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald in Saint Paul, Minnesota, in 1896. He became known for novels and short stories portraying the glamour, anxiety and excess of the 1920s. The Great Gatsby was not an immediate commercial triumph, but its reputation grew substantially after his death in 1940.

The title is sometimes mistakenly linked to Ernest Hemingway, who was Fitzgerald's contemporary and fellow expatriate writer. Hemingway did not write Gatsby. Fitzgerald's other novels include This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, and Tender Is the Night.