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Ginevra King Pirie (November 30, 1898 – December 13, 1980) was an American socialite and heiress.
May 7, 2013 · Revisiting Ginevra King, the Lake Forest woman who inspired ‘Gatsby’. Remarkable how two words, scribbled nearly a century ago about a 16-year-old Lake Forest debutante, can evoke a whole ...
May 10, 2013 · She was F. Scott Fitzgerald's first love. And she was reportedly the woman who served as the principal inspiration for Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," the celebrated novel hitting the big screen via a long-awaited Baz Luhrmann adaptation Friday. Meet Ginevra King.
Ginevra King (1898-1980), pictured on the cover of Town & Country magazine, July 1918. Though the rest of the world may conflate Ginevra King with the romantic heroines of her one-time beau, author F. Scott Fitzgerald, Lake Forest knew her as one of its own.
Jan 24, 2005 · Ginevra King was a rich, ravishing 16-year-old when F. Scott Fitzgerald fell in love with her in 1915. She was young enough to have lost her last two baby teeth only a...
Ginevra King was model for 'Gatsby' character and others. PRINCETON, N.J. -- The Princeton University Library has acquired a rich collection of documents that reveal previously unknown details about American author F. Scott Fitzgerald and his first love, Ginevra King.
Sep 15, 2019 · Ginevra King, of Chicago, has long been considered the inspiration for Daisy Buchanan, Gatsby's elusive love interest. Fitzgerald met King in 1915 at a snow-sledding party in St. Paul, Minnesota. He was a student at Princeton at the time but was on a visit to his home in St. Paul. King was visiting a friend in St. Paul at the time.
Sep 8, 2003 · Her name was Ginevra King, and she was a celebrated Chicago debutante whom Fitzgerald met in 1915 when she was a 16-year-old at the Westover School and he was a 19-year-old at Princeton....
Ginevra King Pirie (November 30, 1898 – December 13, 1980) was an American socialite and heiress. As one of the self-proclaimed "Big Four" debutantes of Chicago during World War I, King inspired many characters in the novels and short stories of Jazz Age writer F. Scott Fitzgerald; in particular, the character of Daisy Buchanan in The Great ...
May 21, 2006 · Preston tells Liane Hansen how she shaped the story through the eyes of Ginevra King, a woman who is able to see her own life play out eerily in Fitzgerald's work and female characters.
