Trivia: What does the “F” in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s name stand for?
Finnegan
Forester
Francis
Franklin
The correct answer is Francis
So why is this answer correct? : Before taking on the literary pen name F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author of “The Great Gatsby” went by the full name Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald. Named after his distant cousin Francis Scott Key, who wrote”The Star-Spangled Banner,” Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in Minnesota. He was celebrated as an author and infamous for his passionate and tumultuous relationship with his wife, Zelda.