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A set of “lost stories” by this author comprise the collection I’d Die For You. An essay by this author which states that it is always 3:00 AM “in a real dark night of the soul” begins, “Of course all life is a process of breaking down.” This author’s romance with the heiress Ginevra King inspired a short story about the caddy Dexter Green pursuing (10[1])Judy Jones. (10[1])A summer that this author of The (-5[1])Crack-Up spent in Montana may have influenced the setting of a work in which John Unger is almost killed after learning about a mountain owned by Percy Washington’s (10[1])family. This author of “Winter Dreams” wrote a novel about Dick and Nicole Driver, whose marriage is modeled on this author’s own relationship with his wife Zelda Sayre. (10[1])For 10 points, name this author of The Diamond as Big as the Ritz (10[1])and Tender Is (10[1])the Night. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: F. Scott Fitzgerald [or Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald]
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