Audible is launching an investigative podcast collection concerning the origins of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s iconic character Jay Gatsby, topic of basic novel The Nice Gatsby.
American Dreamer: Who Was Jay Gatsby? is led by a journalist Joe Nocera (Agatha Christie and the Dandelion Poisoner) and follows the little identified story of Max Gerlach, a German immigrant, small-time criminal and bootlegger who moved to America within the early 1900s in pursuit of the American Dream. Quick ahead to the Fifties when a Fitzgerald renaissance takes maintain and Gerlach claimed to be the inspiration behind the notorious Jay Gatsby.
Set in opposition to the backdrop of World Battle I, Prohibition, and The Nice Despair, the collection follows Gerlach’s life and examines proof that means he could have been telling the reality, starting with a mysterious observe written by Gerlach to Fitzgerald in 1923.
Based on producers, the podcast confirms for the primary time ties the real-life Gatsby needed to prison kingpin Arnold Rothstein. The connection between Gatsby and the fictional gangster Meyer Wolfsheim has lengthy been held as one of many novel’s important connections to actuality.
Producer on the eight-part collection, which launches this week, is Poppy Damon who reteams with Nocera after Agatha Christie and the Dandelion Poisoner, which topped the Audible charts for 12 weeks.
Celebrated novel The Nice Gatsby has been tailored into motion pictures starring Robert Redford and Leonardo DiCaprio.
Nocera mentioned: “I assumed I knew rather a lot about F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Nice Gatsby, however engaged on this podcast was a revelation—it’s superb what number of surprising plot twists Poppy and I found, and the stunning parallels between Max Gerlach’s life and that of the fictional Jay Gatsby. It was additionally, as standard, a pleasure working with the group at Blanchard Home.”
