2006-10-27 05:20:12 · 3 answers · asked by Jazmen G 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Other - Education
He wrote it. Francis Scott Key a 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet, wrote The Star Spangled Banner as a poem after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland, by British ships in Chesapeake Bay during the War of 1812.
EDIT: Sorry didn't see the Fitzgerald. F. Scott Fitzgerald is regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century.
2006-10-27 05:21:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
F. Scott Fitzgerald, the American writer, was named for his distant and famous relative Francis Scott Key, the writer of the Star Spangled Banner.
2006-10-28 01:33:14 · answer #2 · answered by peter_lobell 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Second cousin, three times removed and named after him.
2006-10-27 05:23:39 · answer #3 · answered by littlemamakati 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋