Hong Kong, July 16 -- 'Nick', a prequel to Fitzgerald's iconic 1925 novel 'The Great Gatsby', is in the works by author Michael Farris Smith, earmarked for January 2021, just a few days after the classic novel enters the public domain in the United States. 'Nick' is written by American author Michael Farris Smith, who is known for bestselling novels 'Blackwood', 'The Fighter', and 'Desperation Road'.

Smith has focused on the early life of Fitzgerald's beloved character Nick Carraway, as he embarks on "a transcontinental redemptive journey" to escape the horrors he witnessed during the trench warfare of the First World War. The prequel takes place a few years before Carraway rents a house in the West Egg district of Long Island and encoun...