Who is the author of 'The Great Gatsby'?

The author of *The Great Gatsby* is F. Scott Fitzgerald. Published in 1925, the novel is his best-known work and one of the defining American novels of the Jazz Age.

Fitzgerald sets the story in and around New York during the summer of 1922. Its narrator, Nick Carraway, observes the mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby, whose lavish parties and carefully constructed identity conceal his longing to reunite with Daisy Buchanan. Through Nick’s perspective, the novel examines wealth, class, illusion, and the elusive American Dream.

Fitzgerald drew on the social world he knew: extravagant Long Island parties, the cultural energy of the 1920s, and the effects of Prohibition. The book initially sold modestly, but later readers and critics recognized its compressed style, symbolism, and sharp portrait of American aspiration.

A common mix-up is confusing Fitzgerald with Ernest Hemingway, another major writer of the period and Fitzgerald’s friend. William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, and Hemingway wrote important American fiction, but Fitzgerald alone wrote *The Great Gatsby*.