St. Paul, Minnesota, was the birthplace of Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, who was born into an Irish Catholic family on September 24, 1896. The wealthy mother of his family and his father, Edward, were ...

In F Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel ... distant antecedents (“Scott”) over his Catholic-sounding first name (“Francis”). He may have denied that he was Irish on his father’s side ...

Frances Kroll Ring, the personal secretary to F. Scott Fitzgerald for the last 20 months of his life and a longtime source of information for biographers, documentary and filmmakers.