Question: Which celebrated American author spent two summers in the 1930s living at Asheville’s Grove Park Inn?
Answer: F. Scott Fitzgerald, the celebrated American author of The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night, spent time in the mid-1930s at Asheville’s Grove Park Inn, now called the Omni Grove Park Inn. He stayed there in 1936 while arranging psychiatric care for his wife Zelda at Highland Hospital, amid personal struggles including injury, heavy drinking, and despair.
