Frances Scott Fitzgerald
| Frances Scott Fitzgerald | |
|---|---|
| Born |
October 26, 1921 Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Died | June 18, 1986 (aged 64) Montgomery, Alabama |
| Resting place |
St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Rockville, Maryland |
| Occupation | Writer, journalist |
| Nationality | American |
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.
Fitzgerald was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Upon her birth, her mother supposedly remarked that she hoped Scottie would be a "beautiful little fool." (In The Great Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan says the same thing about her daughter.) Scottie Fitzgerald spent her childhood moving around from place to place with her world-traveler parents – including, among others, time spent living in Paris and Antibes in France, and for five years in a beach house her father rented on the coast of the Chesapeake Bay near Towson, a suburb of Baltimore in Maryland.
In 1936, Fitzgerald began attending the Ethel Walker School, a boarding school in Connecticut, but was expelled for sneaking away from campus to hitchhike to Yale. She attended Vassar and graduated in 1942. Hoping that she would not repeat his academic failures, her father wrote letters to her urging her to take rigorous classes and work hard.
Scottie Fitzgerald and her first husband, Samuel Jackson "Jack" Lanahan, a prominent Washington lawyer, were popular hosts in Washington in the 1950s and 1960s. During this period, she wrote musical comedies about the Washington social scene that were performed annually to benefit the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Washington. Her show Onward and Upward with the Arts was considered for a Broadway run by director David Merrick.
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