Careless People
The true story behind The Great Gatsby, from the Fitzgeralds' parties to an unsolved double murder.
Sarah Churchwell’s account of the autumn of 1922, when F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald returned to New York and the parties began that would inspire The Great Gatsby. She weaves their story together with an unsolved double murder in New Jersey and the wider social history of the Jazz Age.
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