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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 (10[1])“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 (10[1])inspired a short story about the caddy Dexter Green pursuing Judy Jones. A summer that this author of The Crack-Up spent in Montana may have influenced the setting of a work in which John Unger is almost killed (-5[1])after learning about a mountain owned by Percy Washington’s family. This author of “Winter Dreams” wrote a novel about (10[1])Dick and Nicole Driver, (10[1])whose marriage is modeled on this author’s own relationship with his wife Zelda Sayre. (10[4])For 10 points, name this (10[1])author of The Diamond as Big as the Ritz (10[1])and Tender (10[1])Is the Night. ■END■

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