House Where F. Scott Fitzgerald Penned The Great Gatsby For Sale

May 28, 2015

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The house where F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby—a Mediterranean-style home in Long Island, New York, that measures over 5,000 feet and includes seven bedrooms—is on the market for $3,888,888.

The listing agents said that the Great Neck house, built in 1918, has been updated over the years, but it still includes original details such as a wood-burning fireplace, as well as arched windows and crown moldings, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Fitzgerald, his wife Zelda, and their newborn daughter lived in the home from 1922 to 1924, according to Kirk Curnutt, who is vice president of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Society and an English professor at Troy University in Alabama. Fitzgerald’s experiences as a twenty-something socialite interacting with the wealthy people of the neighborhood likely informed his depictions of characters of new and old wealth.

Fitzgerald wrote only three chapters of The Great Gatsby while living at the home before the family departed to France in May of 1924, said Sarah Churchill, professor of American literature at the University of East Anglia, and author of Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald allegedly wrote the rest of the novel in France.

According to public records, Larry Horn, who purchased the home for $4.2 million in 2008, currently owns the house.

Peruse pictures and more information about the house at Flung.


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