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The home where F Scott Fitzgerald lived in Great Neck Estates on Long Island
The home where F Scott Fitzgerald lived in Great Neck Estates on Long Island. Photograph: Steven Bababekov/AP
The home where F Scott Fitzgerald lived in Great Neck Estates on Long Island. Photograph: Steven Bababekov/AP

F Scott Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby home on sale for $3.8m

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Author and his wife, Zelda, lived in the seven-bedroom manor house just outside New York between 1922 and 1924

The suburban New York home where F Scott Fitzgerald is believed to have written The Great Gatsby is for sale.

Zelda Fitzgerald in 1928. Photograph: Alamy

A spokeswoman for Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage said on Wednesday that the asking price for the manor home on Long Island was just over US$3.8m (A$4.8m). She did not identify the owner.

The home is in the village of Great Neck Estates, about 20 miles (32km) from Manhattan.

The 5,000-square-foot (464sqm) Mediterranean style home, which was built in 1918, has seven bedrooms and six bathrooms. It has a music room and several fireplaces.

Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda, lived in the home between 1922 and 1924. He is believed to have written The Great Gatsby while living among the socialites in Long Island’s “gold coast” region.

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