Cummings' classmates included fellow Chicago socialite Ginevra King, future philanthropist Katharine Ordway, Isabel Rockefeller (of the Rockefeller family, a granddaughter of William Rockefeller), and Prescott Bush's sisters Mary and Margaret (aunts to U.S. President George H.W. Bush and great aunts to George W. Bush).
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Her literary fame, however, would endure because in F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby, the character of Jordan Baker was modeled directly after Cummings, just as the character Daisy Buchanan was modeled after Cummings' friend King.
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In 1915, Cummings met a young student at Princeton named F. Scott Fitzgerald, who had fallen in love with her friend Ginevra and would later immortalize them both.
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