So We Read On: How "The Great Gatsby" Came To Be and Why It Endures

In her recently published book on "The Great Gatsby," Maureen Corrigan presents a new perspective on why F. Scott Fitzgerald???s classic American novel is a great work of literary achievement.

Speaker Biography: Maureen Corrigan is book critic for NPR's "Fresh Air," a regular book reviewer for The Washington Post, and lecturer and critic-in-residence at Georgetown University. Her literary memoir "Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading!" was published in 2005. She was an associate editor of and contributor to Mystery and Suspense Writers and the winner of the 1999 Edgar Award for Criticism presented by the Mystery Writers of America.

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