F. Scott Fitzgerald the Night". A fifth, unfinished novel, "The Last Tycoon", was published posthumously. Four collections of his short stories were published, as well as 164 short stories in magazines during his lifetime. Born in 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, to an upper-middle-class family, Fitzgerald was named after his famous second cousin, three times removed on his father's side, Francis Scott Key, but was always known as Scott Fitzgerald. He was also named after his deceased sister, Louise Scott Fitzgerald, one of two sisters who died shortly before his birth. "Well, three months before I was born," he wrote as an adult,
Egerton Leigh Winthrop Charlotte was married to lawyer Robert Ludlow Fowler Jr. (1887–1974) in 1914, with her Winthrop grandfather walking her down the aisle. Ludlow, as her husband was known, was a close friend of author F. Scott Fitzgerald and served as best man at the wedding of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald based the main character of his short story, "The Rich Boy" on Fowler. Charlotte and Ludlow were the parents of Robert Ludlow Fowler III (1919–1942) and Angela Fowler (1915–1989), who married Craig Wylie (1908–1976). Egerton Leigh Winthrop Egerton Leigh Winthrop (October 7, 1838April 6, 1916) was an American lawyer