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
F. Scott Fitzgerald in various editions such as "Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald", ed. Jackson R. Bryer and Cathy W. Banks (2002); "Correspondence of F. Scott Fitzgerald", ed. Matthew Bruccoli and Margaret Duggan (1980), and "F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Life in Letters", ed. Matthew Bruccoli (1994). A collection of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's scrapbooks of photographs and reviews was compiled by Bruccoli and F. Scott and Zelda's daughter Frances "Scottie" Fitzgerald (as Scottie Fitzgerald Smith) in a book "The Romantic Egoists" (1976). A musical about the lives of Fitzgerald and wife Zelda Fitzgerald was