Meet The Real-Life Local Debutante Who Inspired 'Gatsby'

May 10, 2013 Subscribe · Forward PHOTOS: Meet The Real-Life Woman Who Inspired 'Gatsby' She was a rich debutante named after a da Vinci painting. She was F. Scott Fitzgerald's first love. And she was reportedly the woman who served as the principal inspiration for Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby," the celebrated novel hitting the big screen via a long-awaited Baz Luhrmann adaptation Friday. Meet Ginevra King. Born in 1898 in Chicago, she met a 19-year-old Fitzgerald in his hometown of St. Paul in 1915 when she was still attending the Westover boarding school and he was a student at Princeton. Continue reading... Man Held Without Bail In Columbia Student's Shooting Death Gov. Quinn Says 'It's Time To Vote' On Gay Marriage Bill The Nation's Best Cities For Sports Fans Are... Chicago Named Nation's Top Food City In New Poll PHOTOS: DJ Duo Ties The Knot In AMAZING Record Store Wedding Medical Marijuana Bill Clears Senate Committee Vote PHOTOS: Meet The Real-Life Woman Who Inspired 'Gatsby' PHOTOS: DJ Duo Ties The Knot In AMAZING Record Store Wedding Chicago Named Nation's Top Food City In New Poll PHOTOS: DJ Duo Ties The Knot In AMAZING Record Store Wedding PHOTOS: Meet The Real-Life Woman Who Inspired 'Gatsby' DAVE STIEBER Chicago Students Always Lead the Way Our students are intelligent and partake in the democratic process that this country was founded on. So if our students feel forced to have a protest to make their voices heard, join them. They are teaching all of us what Democracy looks like, sounds like, and feels like. Continue reading... LIZ JOYNT SANDBERG Music Improv NighT at Studio BE -- Chicago's New Must-See Improv! Chicago, I'm here to tell you that you've got to see this magic. The world we hope for most - the one where we build something incredible out of nothing but each other - is available for the taking every Wednesday. I don't want you to miss it. Continue reading... DAVE SCHEIDT Matt Rosenberg on Twelve Reasons to Die, Comics and Hip-Hop This week Black Mask Studios released the first issue of their comic book titled Twelve Reasons to Die written by Matt Rosenberg and Patrick Kindlon and a staggering slew of talented illustrators. Continue reading... ANDY THAYER "Radical" Posturing vs. Civil Rights I gagged as I read Yasmin Nair's account of activist Angela Davis's recent speech insulting LGBTs who desire the right to marry. Davis says these LGBTs are motivated by a desire for "bourgeois respectability." Continue reading... ROBERT KOEHLER Indefinite Enemies We need enemies. Homeland Security is psychological. Thus the guilt or innocence of the Gitmo prisoners and all our other detainees is irrelevant. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here. Huffington Post, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003