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Zelda Fitzgerald ( née Sayre; July 24, 1900 – March 10, 1948) was an American novelist, painter, and socialite. [1] . Born in Montgomery, Alabama, to a wealthy Southern family, she became locally famous for her beauty and high spirits. [1] .
Jul 20, 2024 · Zelda Fitzgerald (born July 24, 1900, Montgomery, Alabama, U.S.—died March 10, 1948, Asheville, North Carolina) was an American writer and artist, best known for personifying the carefree ideals of the 1920s flapper and for her tumultuous marriage to F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Willie Mae Hall, night supervisor at the Asheville mental institution, told police in hysterics on the evening of April 12, 1948, just over a month after a fire at the hospital killed nine patients, including author and artist Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, who at the time was best known as the widow of author F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Oct 8, 2018 · Born Zelda Sayre, Zelda Fitzgerald (July 24, 1900 – March 10, 1948) was an American writer and artist of the Jazz Age. Although she produced writing and art on her own, Zelda is best known in history and in popular culture for her marriage to F. Scott Fitzgerald and her tumultuous battle with mental illness.
Jul 23, 2019 · In the case of Zelda, there was outright appropriation — Fitzgerald famously lifted passages from her letters and diaries for his fiction — and when Zelda wanted to write a novel based on her...
Mar 8, 2023 · Her husband F Scott Fitzgerald called her ‘America’s first flapper’, but Zelda Fitzgerald, who died 75 years ago, was much more than the tragic wife and muse of a famous male writer.
Sep 4, 2012 · Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald was a charismatic, vivacious, beautiful, enigmatic, creative, deeply disturbed woman. Several full-length biographies have attempted to explain her. Before she ever met F. Scott Fitzgerald in Montgomery she was already famous/notorious in Alabama for her wit, physical daring and risqué behavior.
Jan 30, 2018 · During her lifetime, Zelda Fitzgerald’s creativity and contribution to her husband’s work were woefully undervalued. Two new films will tell her story.
Jan 7, 2010 · Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald was one of the most celebrated figures of the 1920s. Along with her husband, novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda epitomized the spirit of the times: carefree, fun-loving, and living for the moment.
Zelda Fitzgerald, beautiful, capricious, and wildly high-spirited, was the first and most famous flapper of what her husband F. Scott Fitzgerald named "the Jazz Age." But her moment of triumph as a rich, carefree bride was followed by years of disillusionment, alcoholism, and a descent into chronic schizophrenia.
