Frances Kroll Ring, "the personal secretary to F. Scott Fitzgerald for the last 20 months of his life and a longtime source of information for biographers, documentary filmmakers, students and fans," died Thursday, the New York Times reported. Ring, who began working for Fitzgerald in 1939, typed drafts of The Last Tycoon "and served as a sounding board as he built the story, tore it apart, then put it back together again," the Times noted. Her memoir, Against the Current: As I Remember F. Scott Fitzgerald, was published in 1985.
