Smith, Scottie Fitzgerald

Autor: Smith, Scottie Fitzgerald
Rok: 1921-1986

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 in a large beach house her father rented on the coast near Towson, Maryland.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.Fitzgerald had four children with her first husband: Thomas Addison Lanahan; Eleanor Ann Lanahan; Samuel Jackson Lanahan, Jr.; and Cecilia Scott Lanahan. The eldest child, Thomas, known as "Tim", committed suicide at age 27. Eleanor "Bobbie" Lanahan, an artist and writer, wrote a biography of her mother, Scottie, The Daughter of ... The Life of Frances Scott Fitzgerald Lanahan Smith (1995).Fitzgerald's second marriage, to Grove Smith, ended in divorce in 1979. She lived the last years of her life in her mother Zelda's hometown of Montgomery, Alabama, and died there at age 64 in 1986.