Frances Scott Fitzgerald
Frances Scott "Scottie" Fitzgerald (October 26, 1921 – June 18, 1986) was an American writer and journalist and the only child of novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald. She matriculated from Vassar College and worked for The Washington Post, The New Yorker, and other publications. She became a prominent member of the Democratic Party.
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Fitzgerald shows her children paper dolls that her mother, Zelda, made for her. From the February 1959 Life Magazine issue by Robert Phillips. | |
| Born | Frances Scott Fitzgerald October 26, 1921 Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Died | June 18, 1986 (aged 64) Montgomery, Alabama, U.S. |
| Resting place | St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Rockville, Maryland |
| Occupation | Writer, journalist |
| Education | Vassar College |
| Spouses | Jack Lanahan
(m. 1943; div. 1967)Grove Smith
(m. 1967; div. 1979) |
| Children | 4 |
| Parents |
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| Relatives | Anthony D. Sayre (grandfather) |
In her later years, Fitzgerald became a critic of biographers' depictions of her parents and their marriage. She particularly objected to biographies that depicted her father as a domineering husband who drove his wife insane. Towards the end of her life, Scottie wrote a final coda about her parents to a biographer: "I have never been able to buy the notion that it was my father's drinking which led her to the sanitarium. Nor do I think she led him to the drinking."
Fitzgerald died from throat cancer at her Montgomery home in 1986, aged 64. She was posthumously inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 1992.