F. Scott Fitzgerald

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

(LoC) - Writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, best known for his classic American novel The Great Gatsby, was born on September 24, 1896 in St. Paul, Minnesota. Named for his distant cousin Francis Scott Key, author of the "The Star-Spangled Banner," Fitzgerald was descended, on his father's side, from a long line of Marylanders. His mother, Mary McQuillan, was the daughter of an Irish immigrant who made his fortune as a wholesale grocer in St. Paul. Continued

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness. - ibid

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