Location: Saint Mary's Cemetery, Rockville, Maryland, United States
Cause of death: Heart Attack
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American novelist and short story writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. While he achieved limited success in his lifetime, he is now widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald married American socialite and novelist Zelda Sayre in 1920 and the couple had one child, Frances Scott "Scottie" Fitzgerald.
Fitzgerald finished four novels: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender Is the Night. A fifth, unfinished novel, The Last Tycoon, was published posthumously. Fitzgerald also authored four collections of short stories.
At the time of Fitzgerald´s death, the Roman Catholic Church declined the family's request that Fitzgerald be buried in the family plot in the Catholic Saint Mary's Cemetery in Rockville, Maryland. Fitzgerald was originally buried in Rockville Union Cemetery. In 1975, his daughter, Scottie, successfully managed to have the earlier decision revisited and her parents' remains were moved to the family plot in Saint Mary's. Zelda and Fitzgerald's grave is inscribed with the final sentence of The Great Gatsby:
"So we beat on, boats against
the current, borne back
ceaselessly into the past"
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