F Scott Fitzgerald.
But did you know that he has a tumultuous connection to Asheville?
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Fitzgerald spent two summers in the city that draws the rich and famous to its clear mountain air for rest, relaxation and repair of F Scott Fitzgerald and soul. It was and Fitzgerald rented two rooms at the famous Grove Park Inn, one for sleeping and the other for writing. They say he rented those particular rooms so he could see the main entrance to watch the cars pulling up and observe interesting people and F Scott Fitzgerald they were dressed—probably for material for stories that never got written—characters that he could portray in the age he belonged to when gin was the national drink and sex was an obsession. It was about jazz and flappers. Unfortunately, his Asheville stay was neither a productive nor a happy one. His glamorous life of parties and jazz clubs was falling apart as was his marriage.
While it is a different story, one I will tell in another Fitzgerwld, she would die there in a tragedy of the type that gives rise to the haunted reputation of the historic Montford district of Asheville. His writing, 10 years after The Great Gatsbyhad gone F Scott Fitzgerald. He was churning out hack stories for magazines, F Scott Fitzgerald to pay off debts and the bills… This was a place where he hoped that he would be restored, find discipline and then maybe find subject matter.
He was suffering from tuberculosis, and Asheville is where one went for relief. Nevertheless, it appears that Fitzgerald, who turned forty while at the Grove Park Inn, spent much of his time in an alcoholic haze. Scott Fitzgerald packed his bags and left Asheville in Scltt Hollywood to accept a writing job for the movies. It was there, with the encouragement of a woman lover, that he began drinking less and writing seriously. He started work on The Last Tycoon.
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He died there in after a heart attack leaving The Last Tycoon to be finished and published posthumously by his friend Edmund Wilson, a critic and writer. The two, husband and wife, were rejoined together in a small Catholic cemetery in suburban Maryland.
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