Gatsby: Under the Red, White, and Blue

By Jessica Monk

Did you know that F. Scott Fitzgerald was distantly related to the man who composed "The Star-Spangled Banner?" That, in fact, he was named after him?

I didn’t – Though, of course, Fitzgerald geeks are probably way ahead of me. Since beginning research for our latest project, the Literary Traveler team has closely followed the media attention that the Fitzgeralds attract even from beyond the grave. This sounds both melodramatic and macabre – but the Fitzgeralds are among those writers  – like Sylvia Plath - who attract the kind of personal, possessive fan attention that m...