Frances Scott "Scottie" Fitzgerald (October 26, 1921 – June 18, 1986) was the only child of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald and novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald. She was a writer, journalist, and a prominent member of the United States Democratic Party. October 26 is the 299th day of the year (300th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 66 days remaining. ... Year 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for full calendar). ... June 18 is the 169th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (170th in leap years), with 196 days remaining. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald (July 24, 1900 - March 10, 1948), born Zelda Sayre in Montgomery, Alabama, was the wife of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, whom she married in 1920. ... Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American Jazz Age author of novels and short stories. ... The Democratic Party is one of two major political parties in the United States, the other being the Republican Party. ...

"Scottie" was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Her mother supposedly remarked upon her birth that she was glad to have borne a girl and that she hoped she would be a "beautiful little fool." In The Great Gatsby (1925), Daisy Buchanan says this of her young daughter. Nickname: Location in Ramsey County and the state of Minnesota. ... The Great Gatsby is a novel by the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. ...

She had four children with her first husband, Samuel Jackson Lanahan. She later married Grove Smith. Both men were lawyers, and both marriages ended in divorce.

She is the subject of the biography, "Scottie, The Daughter of . . . : The Life of Frances Scott Fitzgerald Lanahan Smith," which was written by her daughter Eleanor Lanahan.

In it is copied Scottie Lanahan's startlingly civilized letter to her first husband, asking him for a divorce after 23 years.

"Dearest Lamb -

"I love you. I really do. I think you are an absolutely wonderful person, and I admire you very much.

"I nonetheless agree that we can't look forward to our declining years together. I don't know why our marriage is such a failure, when we like each other and are so nice to each other, and are both such nice people, basically - this is perhaps a vain remark but I feel the principal thing we have in common is that we're "nice" - there's just no way either of us could do anything cheap or common advertently. I have done some very foolish and cheap things inadvertently.

"Lamb dear, here's what I think should happen: I think we should continue our present life until the summer of 1967, when I think I should take the children out west, and quietly get a divorce when nobody's looking ...

"Dearest Jack, I just think that we were mis-mated. Yours and my life has been one long argument, often fun and definitely challenging, but dry. So little love, so little plain affection. A sort of rivalry, always - a competition. I have never felt as if I could do with you what I want to so badly, and hope I'll do before I die, which is crawl into someone's arms, and feel their solace."

External links

• Francis Fitzgerald in the IMDb