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Audible Launches Investigative Podcast About The Origins Of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby Character
The eight-part origin story will focus on the little known story of Max Gerlach, a German immigrant, small-time crook and bootlegger.
is led by a journalist Joe Nocera ( Agatha Christie and the Dandelion Poisoner) and follows the little known story of Max Gerlach, a German immigrant, small-time crook and bootlegger who moved to America in the early 1900s in pursuit of the American Dream. Fast forward to the 1950s when a Fitzgerald renaissance takes hold and Gerlach claimed to be the inspiration behind the infamous Jay Gatsby. The relationship between Gatsby and the fictional gangster Meyer Wolfsheim has long been held as one of the novel’s main connections to reality.
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