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Born November 30th 1898

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Born in 1899

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Known as the Fairway Flapper

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Grew up in the Lake Forest area of Chicago, the daughter of a banker and homemaker.

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She was sent to a finishing school, called the Westover School

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Once Edith completed school, she returned to Chicago where she became a debutante.

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Although it isn’t completely clear where Edith and Fitzgerald first met, what is known is that she had quite an influence on him

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However, he also has plenty of connections to Chicago and spent time there, so the two certainly crossed paths on the party circuit. While there, he dated Edith’s friend, Ginevra King, who no doubt introduced the two.

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Fitzgerald immortalized her in The Great Gatsby.

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One of her hobbies consisted of big game hunting

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Dies, November 20, 1984

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Like her mother and her grandmother, she was named after Leonardo da Vinci's oil-on-wood painting Ginevra de' Benci.

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She was the inspiration for several characters in the novels and short stories of American novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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King and Fitzgerald shared a youthful romance from 1915 to 1917, but their relationship stagnated after King's father warned the impressionable young writer that "poor boys shouldn't think of marrying rich girls

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Fitzgerald later claimed that King had rejected him "with the most supreme boredom and indifference."

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King's first husband, William Mitchell—whom she later divorced after an unhappy marriage

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In 1937, Ginevra left Mitchell for businessman John T. Pirie, Jr.

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King's second husband, John T. Pirie, Jr., was a business tycoon and owner of the Chicago department retailer Carson Pirie Scott & Company

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In 1938, Ginevra saw Fitzgerald for the last time in Hollywood, California.

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"She was the first girl I ever loved and I have faithfully avoided seeing her up to this moment to keep the illusion perfect," Fitzgerald informed his daughter Scottie.