"[58] Their social life was fueled with alcohol. [35] Fitzgerald's friendship with Hemingway was quite effusive, as many of Fitzgerald's relationships would prove to be. Frances Scott "Scottie" Fitzgerald (October 26, 1921 – June 18, 1986) was the only child of novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald.She was a writer, a journalist (for The Washington Post, The New Yorker, The Northern Virginia Sun, and others), and a prominent member of the Democratic Party.She was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 1992. [145][146] Tender Is the Night was the subject of the eponymous 1962 film, and made into a television miniseries in 1985. Born on September 24, 1896, in Saint Paul, Minnesota, to an upper-middle-class family, Fitzgerald was named after his second cousin thrice removed, Francis Scott Key, but was always known as Scott Fitzgerald. [126], By the time of his death, Fitzgerald was essentially unknown to the general public. [34] While at a local country club, Fitzgerald met and fell in love with Zelda Sayre, the youngest daughter of Alabama Supreme Court Justice Anthony D. Sayre and the "golden girl", in Fitzgerald's terms, of Montgomery society. I hope it's beautiful and a fool—a beautiful little fool." While stationed in Alabama, he fell in love with rich socialite Zelda Sayre. He moved in the major artistic circles of his day but failed to garner widespread critical acclaim until after his death at the age of 44. He was best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age—a term which he popularized. Fitzgerald was also named after his deceased sister, Louise Scott Fitzgerald,[4] one of two sisters who died shortly before his birth. The only child of F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda, Frances Scott Fitzgerald (1921-1986), nicknamed Scottie, was a Washington Post columnist, playwright, composer and producer of musicals and a Democratic Party insider. "[144], Fitzgerald's works have been adapted into films many times. [14] Edward Fitzgerald had earlier worked as a wicker furniture salesman; he joined Procter & Gamble when the business failed. [121][122] In 1975, Scottie successfully petitioned to have the earlier decision revisited, and her parents' remains were moved to the family plot in Saint Mary's. [44] Fitzgerald was so short of money that he took up a job repairing car roofs. When Ober decided not to continue advancing money to Fitzgerald, the author severed ties with his longtime friend and agent. Fitzgerald had four children with her first husband: Thomas Addison Lanahan; Eleanor Anne Lanahan; Samuel Jackson Lanahan, Jr.; and Cecilia Scott Lanahan. "[77] Others have suggested that the writer's hemorrhage was caused by bleeding from esophageal varices. "[5] His father, Edward Fitzgerald, was of Irish and English ancestry, and had moved to St. Paul from Maryland after the American Civil War. Critical Essays on F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Frances Scott "Scottie" Fitzgerald (October 26, 1921 – June 18, 1986) was the only child of novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald.She was a writer, a journalist (for The Washington Post and The New Yorker among others), and a prominent member of the United States Democratic Party.She was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 1992. Hoffmann. [103] His attempts to write and sell more short stories faltered. Tom Hiddleston and Alison Pill appear briefly as Fitzgerald and Zelda in Woody Allen's 2011 feature film Midnight in Paris. [78] One of the most serious rifts occurred when Zelda told him that their sex life had declined because he was "a fairy" and was likely having a homosexual affair with Hemingway. [97] The cost of his opulent lifestyle and Zelda's medical bills quickly caught up, placing Fitzgerald in constant financial trouble. [108], Completely estranged from Zelda, he began an affair with gossip columnist Sheilah Graham. The purpose of this website is to promote study of the life and work of F. Scott Fitzgerald. [69] The New York World ran a headline declaring "Fitzgerald's Latest A Dud". [17] His mother's inheritance and donations from an aunt allowed the family to live a comfortable lifestyle. [117][118][119] His body was transported to Bethesda, Maryland, where his funeral was attended by only thirty people; among the attendees were his only child, Scottie Fitzgerald,[note 4] and his editor, Maxwell Perkins. [31] Worried that he could die in the War without ever publishing anything, Fitzgerald hastily wrote The Romantic Egotist in the weeks before reporting for duty—and, although Scribners rejected it, the reviewer praised Fitzgerald's writing and encouraged him to resubmit the novel after further revisions. He might have interpreted them and even guided them, as in their middle years they saw a different and nobler freedom threatened with destruction. Most were thrown off by its three-part structure, and many felt that Fitzgerald had not lived up to their expectations. [147] The Great Gatsby has been adapted into numerous films of the same name, spanning nearly 90 years: 1926, 1949, 1974, 2000, and 2013 adaptations. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigm writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. His alcoholism resulted in cardiomyopathy, coronary artery disease, angina, dyspnea, and syncopal spells. [160] The protagonist is a 31-year-old self-destructive, alcoholic named Emmet Monsen, whom Fitzgerald describes in his story as "notably photogenic, slender and darkly handsome". [113] In his final year of life, Fitzgerald wrote his daughter: "I wish now I'd never relaxed or looked back - but said at the end of 'The Great Gatsby': I've found my line - from now on this comes first. "[66], In spring 1924, Fitzgerald and his family moved to France, where he would begin writing his third novel, which would eventually become The Great Gatsby. Ms. Lanahan, whose mother, Frances, was the only child of F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda, had been a Washington debutante and studied art … His only screenplay credit is for Three Comrades (1938). It sold well enough to warrant additional print runs reaching 50,000 copies. She was a writer, a journalist (for The Washington Post, The New Yorker, The Northern Virginia Sun, and others), and a prominent member of the Democratic Party. She was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 1992. During the second intermission, Fitzgerald and Lardner asked the lead actor, Ernest Truex, "Are you going to stay and do the last act?" [9][10][11], Fitzgerald spent the first decade of his childhood primarily in Buffalo, New York, where his father worked for Procter & Gamble,[13] with a short interlude in Syracuse, (between January 1901 and September 1903). "The Crack-Up". Although some writers have claimed that his diaries include an entry referring to "Zelda and her abortionist", there is, in fact, no such entry. [59] The couple would later be seen as the epitome of the period, with Ring Lardner Jr. labelling them "the prince and princess of their generation. [104] Shortly after the release of this story, Hemingway referred to Fitzgerald as "poor Scott" in his short story "The Snows of Kilimanjaro". In 1932, she wrote and sent to Scribner's her own fictional version of their lives in Europe, Save Me the Waltz (1932). [48] On October 26, 1921, she gave birth to their daughter and only child Frances Scott "Scottie" Fitzgerald. [155] Fitzgerald is of international appeal, as even the Japanese Takarazuka Revue has created a musical adaptation of Fitzgerald's life. Their eldest child, Thomas, known as "Tim", died by suicide at age 27. The cenotaph for F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, along with their daughter, Frances Scott Fitzgerald Smith, is located at the gravesite of Zelda's family, The Sayre's. [36][37] In what became a lifetime practice, Fitzgerald relied on Zelda for literary inspiration, going so far as to plagiarize her diary while revising his first novel. When Zelda Fitzgerald died in 1948, in a fire at the Highland Mental Hospital, she was originally buried next to him at Rockville Union. Upon its release, fellow writers Willa Cather, T. S. Eliot, and Edith Wharton praised Fitzgerald's latest work, but it was snubbed by most critics and audiences. His father’s name was Edward Fitzgerald and his mother was Molly McQuillan. [40] Many of Zelda's friends and members of her family were wary of the relationship, as they did not approve of his excessive drinking, and Zelda's Episcopalian family did not like the fact that he was a Catholic. ", "Decoding Woody Allen's "Mignight in Paris, "Review: 'Genius' Puts Max Perkins and Thomas Wolfe in a Literary Bromance, "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Summit Terrace / F. Scott Fitzgerald House", "Exploring the architecture and history of St. Paul's Summit Hill", Online catalog of F. Scott Fitzgerald's personal library, American Writers: A Journey Through History, F. 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[26] Immediately infatuated with her, according to Mizner, Fitzgerald "remained devoted to Ginevra as long as she would allow him to", and wrote to her "daily the incoherent, expressive letters all young lovers write". [132] The novel gained further popularity during World War II, when it was selected to be part of the Armed Services Editions, books which were printed for American troops. Bryant Mangum, "An Affair of Youth: In Search of Flappers, Belles, and the First Grave of the Fitzgeralds, in. Most notable among them was a relatively unknown Ernest Hemingway, whom Fitzgerald greatly admired. [56], In New York City, the Fitzgeralds quickly became celebrities, as much for their wild behavior as for the success of This Side of Paradise. [19] In 1911, Fitzgerald's parents sent him to the Newman School, a Catholic prep school in Hackensack, New Jersey. Rejected over 120 times, he was only able to sell a single story, for which he was paid $30. I think I started then to be a writer. [110] In 1939, MGM terminated the contract, and Fitzgerald became a freelance screenwriter. It was an age of miracles, it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of satire. They were ordered to leave both the Biltmore Hotel and the Commodore Hotel for their drunkenness. MJ Bruccoli, J Baughman – 1996 – Univ of South Carolina. David Hoflin and Christina Ricci portray the Fitzgerald's in Amazon Prime's 2015 television series Z: The Beginning of Everything. [153], Beyond his own characters, Fitzgerald himself has been portrayed in dozens of books, plays, and films. [69], While Fitzgerald had been writing The Great Gatsby, Zelda had become infatuated with a young French aviator, Edouard S. On October 26, 1921, their daughter Frances Scott Fitzgerald was born. [109] At one point during their affair, Fitzgerald attempted to give her one of his books, but after visiting several bookstores, he realized that they had stopped carrying his books. [109] After a heart-attack in Schwab's Drug Store, he was ordered by his doctor to avoid strenuous exertion. [76], In A Moveable Feast, Hemingway claimed that Zelda taunted Fitzgerald over the size of his penis. Until now, Scottie Fitzgerald has existed only peripherally in the biographies of her famous parents. [102] Nearly bankrupt, Fitzgerald spent most of 1936 and 1937 living in various hotels near Asheville. As the two were leaving the Pantages Theater, Fitzgerald experienced a dizzy spell and had trouble walking; upset, he said to Graham, "They think I am drunk, don't they? [49][50], —F. They resumed their engagement and were married on April 3, 1920 at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York. Scribner's prepared an initial print run of 20,000 copies, and mounted an advertising campaign. As she emerged from the anesthesia, he recorded Zelda saying, "Oh, God, goofo I'm drunk. F. Scott Fitzgerald, born Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American author whose works became synonymous with the Jazz Age. [72] It would take many decades for the novel to gain its present acclaim and popularity. [12] Hoping that she would not repeat his academic failures, her father wrote letters to her urging her to take rigorous classes and work hard. [89], During this time, Fitzgerald rented the "La Paix" estate in the suburb of Towson, Maryland to work on his latest novel, the story of the rise and fall of Dick Diver, a promising young psychiatrist who becomes smitten with and marries Nicole Warren, one of his patients. [130][131] When Wilson published his finished version, titled The Last Tycoon,[note 5] in 1941, he included The Great Gatsby within the edition, sparking new interest and discussion. Born to the most famous and celebrated couple of the 20th century, during the Jazz Age, an era that her father named himself, Frances Scott Fitzgerald was born in 1921 in St. Paul, Minnesota. [157] Others include the TV movies Zelda (1993, with Timothy Hutton), F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood (1976, with Jason Miller), and F. Scott Fitzgerald and 'The Last of the Belles' (1974, with Richard Chamberlain). Through an arrangement with the Red Cross, some novels were even sent to Japanese and German POW camps. Hemingway did not get on well with Zelda, however, and in addition to describing her as "insane" in his memoir A Moveable Feast,[75] Hemingway claimed that Zelda "encouraged her husband to drink so as to distract Fitzgerald from his work on his novel",[76] so he could work on the short stories he sold to magazines to help support their lifestyle. "[82] This breakdown of their relationship worsened Fitzgerald's alcoholism. [162], An F. Scott Fitzgerald Society was established in 1992 at Hofstra University, and has since become an international association and an affiliate of the American Literature Association. Tender is the Night. Letter #2 is to his own 15-year-old daughter, Frances Scott Fitzgerald. He wears a properly buttoned white shirt with a tie, and creamy yellow tailored suit and trousers. "[137] Fitzgerald's momentary success and early death result in many seeing him as a tragic figure. "[69] Initially titled Trimalchio, an allusion to the Latin work Satyricon, the rough manuscript followed the rise of a freedman to wealth and power. [4][5][2][3][6] She attended Calvert School [7] and briefly attended the Bryn Mawr School while her mother Zelda received treatment at Sheppard Pratt Hospital.[8][9]. [106], Although he reportedly found movie work degrading, Fitzgerald entered into a lucrative exclusive deal with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1937 that necessitated his moving to Hollywood, where he earned his highest annual income up to that point: $29,757.87 (equivalent to $529,235 in 2019). Scottie Fitzgerald spent her childhood moving from place to place with her parents[3] – including time spent living in Paris and Antibes in France,[3] and for five years in a beach house her father rented on the coast of the Chesapeake Bay not far from Baltimore, Maryland. [128] Well after his death, Scribners still had many unsold editions of The Great Gatsby from its first printing. [52][53] Chapters of the book were serialized in Metropolitan Magazine in late 1921, and in March 1922, the book was published. His short story, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," was the basis for a 2008 film. Daughter of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. English: Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigm writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. [64] In a letter, Zelda claimed that the audience were “so obviously bored” and that some even walked out during the second act. "[108], In 2015, an editor of The Strand Magazine discovered and published for the first time an 8,000-word manuscript, dated July 1939, of a Fitzgerald short story titled "Temperature". Although he received a raise for creating a slogan for a laundry in Iowa: "We keep you clean in Muscatine", Fitzgerald was still relatively poor. [99] Beginning that year, Fitzgerald mocked himself as a Hollywood hack through the character of Pat Hobby in a sequence of 17 short stories, later collected as "The Pat Hobby Stories", which garnered many positive reviews. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigm writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. “After the book came out, Eleanor and her siblings [Samuel Jackson, Jr., and Cecilia Scott] agreed to donate the papers to Vassar, Scottie’s alma mater,” says Streett. [164] Fitzgerald is also the namesake of the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota, home of the radio broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion. [22] She would become his inspiration for the character of Isabelle Borgé, Amory Blaine's first love in This Side of Paradise,[27] for Daisy in The Great Gatsby, and several other characters in his novels and short stories. [14] She is buried next to her parents in Rockville, Maryland. [90] He was able to make some changes prior to the novel's publication, and convinced her doctors to keep her from writing any more about their relationship. Fitzgerald began writing his fourth novel, provisionally titled The Boy Who Killed His Mother, Our Type, and then The World’s Fair. Francis Scott Fitzgerald (Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, Saint Paul, 1896 - Hollywood, 1940) Narrador estadounidense, considerado el máximo interprete literario de la llamada "era del jazz" de los años veinte de su país. Fitzgerald himself wrote that "I wanted to stop the show and say it was all a mistake but the actors struggled heroically on." Fitzgerald travelled a lot at this time – mainly to France, where he met a number of other Americans who had left the United States. Genealogy chart showing how F. Scott Fitzgerald (Author of The Great Gatsby ) is the 2nd cousin 3 times removed to Francis Scott Key (Author of “The Star Spangled Banner” ) via … This "whoring", as Fitzgerald and Hemingway called these sales,[77] was a sore point in the two authors' friendship. Robert Westbrook. "[29] After their relationship ended in 1917, Fitzgerald requested that Ginevra destroy the letters that he had written to her. He also spent time during this period working on his fifth and final novel, based on film executive Irving Thalberg. She was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 1992. His third novel, The Great Gatsby (1925), was inspired by his rise to fame and relationship with Zelda. During the 12 years she lived in Montgomery before developing throat cancer, she traveled frequently to visit her three surviving children and grandchildren, none of whom lived near Alabama. In 1936, Fitzgerald began attending the Ethel Walker School,[10] a boarding school in Connecticut, but was expelled for sneaking away from campus to hitchhike to Yale. [36][37] Together again, they embarked on what he would later call "sexual recklessness," and by December, they were inseparable. [94], —Ernest Hemingway on Fitzgerald's loss of talent in A Moveable Feast (1964)[77], With the arrival of the Great Depression, many of Fitzgerald's works were seen as elitist and materialistic. Another film, Last Call (2002) portrays the relationship between Fitzgerald (Jeremy Irons) and Frances Kroll Ring (Neve Campbell). Here's the truth behind everything pop culture got wrong about F. Scott Fitzgerald. Scott and Zelda got married in St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York. [165], Fitzgerald's childhood Summit Terrace home in St. Paul was listed as a National Historic Landmark in 1971. Fitzgerald was extremely protective of his "material" (i.e., their life together). [139] The publication of The Great Gatsby prompted T. S. Eliot to write, in a letter to Fitzgerald, "It seems to me to be the first step that American fiction has taken since Henry James. They returned to America in September 1931. He soon met and began an affair with the 17 year-old starlet Lois Moran. His own novel was finally published in 1934 as Tender Is the Night. [14], In 1908, his father was fired from Procter & Gamble, and the family returned to Minnesota, where Fitzgerald attended St. Paul Academy in St. Paul from 1908 to 1911. [20] Fitzgerald played on the 1912 Newman football team. Harper Collins 1995 pp 311–312. Jozan. She made polite excuses about leaving the party without giving the other guests any clue as to what had happened. For other people with these names, see. [54] That year, Fitzgerald also released Tales of the Jazz Age, which was composed of 11 short stories, all but two written before 1920. [80] In September 1924, Zelda overdosed on sleeping pills. [71] His final royalty check was for only $13.13, all of which was from Fitzgerald buying his own books. Although she initially rejected him due to his financial situation, Zelda agreed to marry Fitzgerald after he had published the commercially successful This Side of Paradise (1920). [73] She spent afternoons swimming at the beach and evenings dancing at the casinos with Jozan. [25] King and Fitzgerald had a romantic relationship from 1915 to 1917. Creció en una familia católica irlandesa. [70] For the rest of his life, The Great Gatsby experienced tepid sales. Publicly, this meant little more than napping when they arrived at parties, but privately it increasingly led to bitter fights. [55] This collection's title would lend itself to the eponymous time period. In the 1930s, Fitzgerald had told Hemingway of his fear of dying from "congestion of the lungs. Jealous of the attention Fitzgerald gave Moran, Zelda burned her own clothing in a self destructive act. [46] It launched Fitzgerald's career as a writer and provided a steady income suitable to Zelda's needs. [35] They began a courtship, but were briefly interrupted in October when he was summoned north. Fitzgerald returned to his parents' house at 599 Summit Avenue, on Cathedral Hill, in St. Paul, to revise The Romantic Egotist, recast as This Side of Paradise, a semi-autobiographical account of Fitzgerald's undergraduate years at Princeton. After six weeks, Zelda asked for a divorce. Several months after Fitzgerald's relocation, she was attending a party in Montgomery when she was informed by a long-distance telephone call of her son's suicide. He agreed, moving into a studio-owned bungalow in January 1927. [161] Fitzgerald bibliographies had previously listed the story, sometimes referred to as "The Women in the House", as "unpublished", or as "Lost – mentioned in correspondence, but no surviving transcript or manuscript". [110] His failure in Hollywood pushed him to return to drinking, imbibing nearly 40 beers a day in 1939. A fifth, unfinished novel, The Last Tycoon (1941), was completed by Edmund Wilson and published after Fitzgerald's death. [84] The starlet became a temporary muse for the author and he rewrote Rosemary Hoyt, one of the central characters in Tender is the Night—who had been a male in earlier drafts—to closely mirror her. [57] Zelda once jumped into the fountain at Union Square. [18] In a rather unconventional style of parenting, Fitzgerald attended Holy Angels with the arrangement that he go for only half a day—and was allowed to choose which half. [note 3][98], Fitzgerald's alcoholism and financial difficulties, in addition to Zelda's mental illness, made for difficult years in Baltimore. One of F Scott Fitzgerald bestseller, this book is an ahead-of-its-time witty satire about man’s primal wish of staying young. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. . During that winter, he was stationed at Fort Leavenworth, under the command of future United States President and General of the Army Dwight Eisenhower, whom he intensely disliked. [109] During his work on Winter Carnival (1939), Fitzgerald went on another alcoholic binge and was treated by New York psychiatrist Richard H. [107] During his two years in California, Fitzgerald rented a room at the Garden of Allah bungalow complex on Sunset Boulevard. Francis Scott Fitzgerald by Cayla Werley His wife Zelda, Princeton, And Alcohol Influenced Francis to acclomplish his goals. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. [35] He later referred to this period of decline in his life as "The Crack-Up" in the short story. [99] Fitzgerald's deteriorating mental state and drinking habits were captured publicly in an article published by Michel Mok titled "The Other Side of Paradise, Scott Fitzgerald, 40, Engulfed in Despair", first published in the New York Post, September 25, 1936. The last time the two saw each other was on a 1939 trip to Cuba. Fitzgerald tried to continue working on his fourth novel, but by this point it had become clear that Zelda had an extreme mental illness as her behavior grew increasingly erratic. In a 2008 interview, Jay McInerney claimed that "people believe the myth of Fitzgerald is—that he was seduced by this world that he wrote about, and that he ultimately couldn’t separate his life and his art. Faced with financial difficulties due to the declining popularity of his works, Fitzgerald turned to Hollywood, writing and revising screenplays. “They could have gone to Princeton where F. Scott’s and Zelda’s papers are. [109] The film depicts Fitzgerald (played by Gregory Peck) during his final years and his relationship with Graham (played by Deborah Kerr). From 1933 to 1937, Fitzgerald was hospitalized for alcoholism 8 times and arrested several times. By the mid 1930s, his popularity and fame had greatly decreased, and consequently, he had begun to suffer financially. He left the Riviera later that year, and the Fitzgeralds never saw him again. Her show Onward and Upward with the Arts was considered for a Broadway run by producer David Merrick. Started at princeton University, But didn't finish. The Life of Frances Scott Fitzgerald Lanahan Smith. [10] She graduated from Vassar in 1942, eighteen months after her father's death. [160] Long thought lost, Fitzgerald's manuscript for the story was found in the rare books and manuscript archives at Princeton University, his alma mater. [97] During this trip, Fitzgerald was assaulted when he tried to stop a cockfight and returned to the United States so intoxicated and exhausted that he was hospitalized. Boston, MA: G.K. Hall, 1984, Reader's companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night. The Pat Hobby Stories were originally published in Esquire between January 1940 and July 1941, even after his death. (And thanks to Maria Popova at Brain Pickings for finding them three-and-a-half years ago.) F. Scott Fitzgerald was a short story writer and novelist considered one of the pre-eminent authors in the history of American literature due almost entirely to … She was a writer, a journalist (for The Washington Post, The New Yorker, The Northern Virginia Sun, and others), and a prominent member of the Democratic Party. Frances Scott "Scottie" Fitzgerald (October 26, 1921 – June 18, 1986) was the only child of novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald.She was a writer, a journalist (for The Washington Post and The New Yorker among others), and a prominent member of the Democratic Party.She was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 1992. "[89] In 1935, Fitzgerald wrote Perkins, admitting that alcohol was disrupting his writing, limiting his "mental speed." Fitzgerald was also named after his deceased sister, Louise Scott Fitzgerald, one of two sisters who died shortly before his birth. "[167], American novelist and screenwriter (1896-1940), "Scott Fitzgerald" and "Francis Fitzgerald" redirect here. Scottie shows her children paper dolls Zelda made for her. [120], At the time of his death, the Roman Catholic Church denied the family's request that Fitzgerald, a non-practicing Catholic, be buried in the family plot in the Catholic Saint Mary's Cemetery in Rockville, Maryland. [14], Fitzgerald died at her Montgomery home from throat cancer at age 64 in 1986. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896, in Saint-Paul, Minnesota (United States), into a bourgeois class family of Catholic beliefs. "[60][61][62][63], Following Fitzgerald's adaptation of his short story "The Vegetable" into a play, he and Zelda moved to Great Neck, Long Island to be near Broadway. [123][124][125], Fitzgerald, an alcoholic since college, became notorious during the 1920s for his extraordinarily heavy drinking, which would undermine his health by the late 1930s. 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