page_title: Frances Scott Fitzgerald
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Frances Scott Fitzgerald / Early life
caption_attribution_description: A photograph of Zelda Fitzgerald published in Metropolitan Magazine in June 1922, accompanying her piece "Eulogy of a Flapper".
context_page_description: Frances Scott "Scottie" Fitzgerald was the only child of novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald. She was a writer, a journalist, and a prominent member of the Democratic Party. She was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 1992.
context_section_description: 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. Scott Fitzgerald's best known novel. Scottie Fitzgerald spent her childhood moving from place to place with her parents – including time spent living in Paris and Antibes in France, and for five years in a beach house her father rented on the coast of the Chesapeake Bay not far from Baltimore, Maryland. She attended Calvert School  and briefly attended the Bryn Mawr School while her mother Zelda received treatment at Sheppard Pratt Hospital.
  In 1936, Fitzgerald began attending the Ethel Walker School, a boarding school in Connecticut, but was expelled for sneaking away from campus to hitchhike to Yale. She attended Vassar College. Hoping that she would not repeat his academic failures, her father wrote letters to her urging her to take rigorous classes and work hard. She graduated from Vassar in 1942, eighteen months after her father's death.
caption: Zelda Fitzgerald in 1922
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