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'Gatsby's Girl' Explores Fitzgerald's First Love : NPR

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At a busy crossroads in Rockville, Maryland, just north of Washington, D.C., sits a small cemetery where Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald are buried. Their dramatic marriage is still a source of fascination for anyone interested in 20th Century American literature. But before the author of The Great Gatsby met his wife, he fell in love with a cool heiress from Lake Forest, Illinois. Ginevra King was attending boarding school near Princeton University when F. Scott Fitzgerald was a freshman there. Their relationship was passionate but brief. She dumped him, and he never got over it. The evidence of their romance is the basis for a new historical novel, Gatsby's Girl, by Caroline Preston. When we spoke to the author recently from the studio of the Virginia Foundation of the Humanities, in Charlottesville, she said that at fist Fitzgerald and King exchanged letters, almost daily. Some of his were 20 to 30 pages long. Ms. CAROLINE PRESTON (Author): They corresponded for two years, but the maj

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