Before heading south to Rome, Scott and Zelda spent several days in Venice — the so-called ‘Queen of the Adriatic’. As with Paris and London, little of what they did here was ever recorded. In letters and writings the pair produced after their return home the references and allusions amount to little more than scraps….

A discovery I made recently reveals that the best man at the wedding of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s parents, Edward and Mollie, was a lineal descendant of America’s first president, General George Washington. A look at the Fitzgerald family’s links to Washington D.C, Sixteenth Street and America’s founding fathers. During his time at prep school and…