The lonely grave of an American great: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s final resting place
Posted by staff / May 16, 2013 F. Scott Fitzgeraldfinal resting placeMarylandRockville
Wandering a graveyard in Rockville, Maryland, you may come upon a common tombstone and wonder if your eyes are deceiving you or you just stumbled upon the final resting place of one America’s great writers.
Number two would be the correct, and sobering, answer.
When he died in 1940 Fitzgerald regarded himself as an utter failure. His funeral was attended by around thirty people in a demoralizing re-enactment of Gatsby’s own under attended service. His tomb is not venerated as perhaps one of America’s greatest writers should be – days can go by without a visitor. Yet those who come often leave the two things he needed the most before he died – money and alcohol.
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