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At first, “Ex-Wife” was far more successful than “Gatsby,” blasting through a dozen printings and selling over 100,000 copies.

‘Ex-Wife’ originally outsold ‘The Great Gatsby,’ but critics sniffed at the novel, deeming it a melodramatic period piece − even though it tackled timeless issues like gender, money and power.

Writer Ursula Parrott, pictured with her son, Marc, in 1935. ACME NewspapersIn 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald published “The Great Gatsby.” Four years later, Ursula Parrott published her first novel, “Ex-Wife.” I probably read “The Great Gatsby” a dozen times between junior high school and my late 20s. But I had never even heard of Ursula Parrott or her 1929 bestseller until I stumbled across a screenplay adaption of one of Parrott’s short stories. Fitzgerald, in fact, had been hired to write that sc

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Martin Scorsese's 'Killers of the Flower Moon' examines the origins of the agency that helped build a relationship with entertainment studios.