I have heard (in gradeschool) that F. Scott was basically an absent father – he hired people to watch his daughter while he wrote and drank. Zelda had been committed to the nuthouse, so by the early '30s nobody was around to look after the kid. So, by the time she was eight or ten Scottie didn’t see her parents.
My Google-fu is weak, but I cannot find anything at all about the Fitzgeralds as parents or Scottie’s life as a child.
Anyone know any details of this particular part of Fitzgerald’s life?
Matt Bruccoli’s bio SOME SORT OF EPIC GRANDEUR has the best details, as I recall. If you want to know something, ask me, and I’ll probably be able to answer and to give you a source, but Bruccoli’s the place to start looking. FSF mostly corresponded with his daughter the last few years of his life, 1935 to 1940, when he was largely in Hollywood and she was mostly at prep school and then college. She spent some time, over the summer of 1939, living with him in LA. He was a devoted dad, for a drunk living a continent away.