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The Great Gatsby: From Flop to Great American Novel
How did Gatsby become so…great?
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Countee Cullen's Poem “Confession”: Reading and Analysis
“If for a day joy masters me / Think not my wounds are healed.”
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

Images

Passport photo of Hemingway
Detail of Ernest Hemingway's 1923 passport.
Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection/John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
Gertrude Stein
American writer Gertrude Stein at her Paris studio, with a portrait of her by Pablo...
Wide World Photos/New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (digital file no. LC-DIG-ppmsca-30616)
Stein and Toklas
Gertrude Stein (left) and Alice B. Toklas arriving in New York aboard the S.S. Champlain,...
AP/Shutterstock.com
Hemingway in 1918
Ernest Hemingway in Milan, Italy, 1918.
Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection/John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
Ernest Hemingway
American author Ernest Hemingway outside of his residence at 113 rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs,...
Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection/John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lost Generation couple Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1921.
Everett Collection/age fotostock
Sylvia Beach
Bookseller Sylvia Beach standing in the doorway of her shop Shakespeare and Company,...
© Pictorial Parade/Hulton Archive—Archive Photos/Getty Images
Hart Crane
American poet Hart Crane.
© Smith Archive/Alamy
H.D.
Imagist poet H.D., 1921.
H.D. Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
John Dos Passos
American writer John Dos Passos.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Janet Flanner
American writer Janet Flanner examining a copy of The New Yorker, for which...
Everett Collection/Alamy
Archibald MacLeish
Poet and playwright Archibald MacLeish, 1947.
Keystone/FPG
Djuna Barnes
American writer Djuna Barnes.
© Oscar White/Corbis—VCG/Getty Images
E.E. Cummings
American poet and painter E.E. Cummings, 1962.
© Bettmann/Getty Images
Maria and Eugene Jolas
American poets Maria Jolas (left) and Eugene Jolas founded the revolutionary literary...
© ARCHIVIO GBB/Alamy
The Sun Also Rises
First edition cover of Ernest Hemingway's first novel The Sun Also Rises...
© Raptis Rare Books
Hemingway in a Red Cross ambulance, Italy, 1918
During World War I, Ernest Hemingway was an ambulance driver for the American Red...
Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection/John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
Celebrated wit Dorothy Parker, 1939
American poet, short-story writer, screenwriter, and critic Dorothy Parker was one...
Culver Pictures