When F. Scott Fitzgerald​ wrote "The Great Gatsby"​ at the height of the roaring '20s, he couldn't possibly realize that the book would emerge as one of the very top contenders for "the great American novel.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, published 100 years ago this week, was not popular in the author’s lifetime. But it has come to embody American aspiration.

F. Scott Fitzgerald's Jazz Age masterpiece, "The Great Gatsby," marks 100 years in publication Thursday -- and for nearly as long, fans of the novel have been working to bring the story to the stage and screen.