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,
Frances Scott Fitzgerald Frances Scott Fitzgerald 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", "The New Yorker", "The Northern Virginia Sun", and 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," which Daisy Buchanan also says in "The Great Gatsby", F.