John F. Fitzgerald him the nickname 'Honey Fitz'. His daughter Rose married Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., a son of his political rival P. J. Kennedy. In old age, Fitzgerald helped his grandson John F. Kennedy to win his first seat in congress. John Francis Fitzgerald was born in the North End of Boston, to Irish businessman/politician Thomas Fitzgerald of Bruff, County Limerick, and Rosanna Cox of County Cavan. He was the fourth of twelve children. Both of his sisters, Ellen and Mary, and his eldest brother, Michael, died in infancy. Fitzgerald's brother Joseph had severe brain damage from malaria and barely functioned. Only
Zelda Fitzgerald the nature of mental illness," based on literary analysis of Zelda's published and unpublished work as well as her husband's. After the success of Milford's biography, scholars and critics began to look at Zelda's work in a new light. In a 1968 edition of "Save Me the Waltz," F. Scott Fitzgerald scholar Matthew Bruccoli wrote, ""Save Me the Waltz" is worth reading partly because anything that illuminates the career of F. Scott Fitzgerald is worth reading—and because it is the only published novel of a brave and talented woman who is remembered for her defeats." But as "Save Me the