Did Marjorie Merriweather Post Inspire The Great Gatsby?

“With historical fiction, the most outlandish, outrageous, are bizarre moments are always pulled directly from the history,” says Allison Pataki, “because history gives you the raw material that you just couldn’t make up.” She’d certainly know. Pataki’s new novel, , is her sixth work of historical fiction, and it’s chock full of stranger-than-fiction moments. The book charts the course of its title character’s life from her youth in Battle Creek, Michigan—where her sickly father was a patient of Dr. John Harvey Kellogg’s famous sanitarium—through to her life as one of the richest women in the world, thanks to her father’s… Read Full Article