Conflicted Catholic F. Scott Fitzgerald Remembered as ‘The Great Gatsby’ Turns 100

Conflicted Catholic F. Scott Fitzgerald Remembered as ‘The Great Gatsby’ Turns 100

Scott Fitzgerald and wife, Zelda, are buried in St. Mary Cemetery in Rockville, Maryland. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons) GREAT NECK, N.Y. — When writer F. Scott Fitzgerald died at age 44 in 1940, his family was denied a request to bury him in a Catholic cemetery in Rockville, Maryland.  A local bishop had declared Fitzgerald an apostate. Although raised Catholic in Minnesota and Maryland, he reportedly lapsed as an adult. But he also embraced a life…