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F. SCOTT FITZGERALD ONCE ROAMED NORFOLK.(COMMENTARY)

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From: The Virginian Pilot
Date: 19960929
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Byline: GEORGE TUCKER

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), the American post-World War I novelist whose literary output epitomized ``The Jazz Age,'' had close family ties that lured him to Norfolk many times during his meteoric career.

Fitzgerald, the 100th anniversary of whose birth was celebrated this past Thursday, was a first cousin of the late Mrs. Richard Calvert Taylor of Norfolk whom he affectionately called ``Cousin Cecie.'' Mrs. Taylor, who was Miss Cecilia Delihant before her marriage and who lived in a still existing big white house on Gosnold Avenue in Norfolk's ...

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