How The Saturday Evening Post Helped Create Gatsby
Today he’s known as the author of The Great Gatsby, but in the 1920s, F. Scott Fitzgerald was known for being a Post writer.
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Tag Archives: classic fiction
Oscar Winners Inspired by the Post
As the 85th Academy Awards takes place this Sunday, check out our list of 9 Post-inspired award winners—and 2 films that while popular, have failed to claim a statue.
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She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
“Command” by James Warner Bellah was fist published by the Post in June of 1948 and was adapted for the big screen in 1949 under the name She Wore a Yellow Ribbon.
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True Grit (1969, 2010)
Written by author Charles Portis, “True Grit” appeared in The Saturday Evening Post in 1968 as a three-part serial.
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And Then There Were None (1945)
Widely considered one of Agatha Christie’s best who-dunnits, “The Ten Little Indians” first appeared in the Post on May 20, 1939, and ran as a six-part serial before it was published in book form in 1940.
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Death on the Nile (1978)
The Post first ran Agatha Christie’s “Death on the Nile” on May 13, 1937, and completed the series in eight parts.
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The Sand Pebbles (1966)
The three-part story first appeared in the Post in November 1962 and made its film debut in 1966.
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Fail Safe (1964, 2000)
The first film adaptation of Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler’s “Fail-Safe,” which was serialized in the Post in October 1962, was released in 1964.
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Lassie Come Home (1943)
Hailed as “one of the all-time great family films” by Turner Classic Movie’s Leonard Maltin, Lassie Come Home was the first film adaptation of Eric Knight’s story by the same name, which ran in the Post on December 17, 1938. The first of seven Lassie movies produced by MGM, the film starred Roddy McDowall, Donald ... More
Lili (1953)
Lili was based on Paul Gallico’s short story “The Man Who Hated People,” published by the Post on October 28, 1950.
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Red River (1948)
Bordon Chase’s “The Chislom Trail” was a six part series that first ran in the Post in December 1946 and was brought to the silver screen in 1948 under the name Red River.
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The Quiet Man (1952)
“The Quiet Man” originally appeared in the Post on February 11, 1933, and was written by Maurice Walsh.
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Call of the Wild (1935)
Jack London’s “Call of the Wild” was first serialized in the Post in 1908. Later published as a novel, it’s now an American classic that has been adapted to film no less than seven times since 1908.
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Locked Up with Vonnegut
Jack and Jill Editor Corey Michael Dalton gives us the inside scoop on spending Banned Books Week locked up with Vonnegut.
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The Post Mourns Ray Bradbury
The Post mourns the passing of one of the great names in American fiction — and one of its most important contributors.
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Undiscovered Poe? Early Works Before ‘The Black Cat’
Did the Post print several anonymous pieces by Edgar Allan Poe before we printed his classic short story, The Black Cat?
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“For in that sleep of death…”
An Edgar Allan Possibility: The following article appeared in the August 13, 1831 Post. We believe it may have been written by Edgar Allan Poe and published anonymously. Let us know what you think in the comments.
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