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Ginevra King Pirie (November 30, 1898 – December 13, 1980) was an American socialite and heiress. [1] As one of the self-proclaimed "Big Four" debutantes of Chicago during World War I, [2] 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 ...
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.
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 (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.
Princeton NJ -- The 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.
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 ...
Aug 13, 2023 · Ginevra King was F. Scott Fitzgerald's version of Daisy Buchanan. Warner Bros. So who was Ginevra King? She was a major Chicago socialite who ultimately married an heir to the...
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....
May 13, 2013 · Ginevra King, the inspiration for Daisy Buchanan in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.
