Zelda sayre biography
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Zelda Fitzgerald
(1900-1948)
Who Was Zelda Fitzgerald?
Zelda Fitzgerald was an icon of the Roaring Twenties. A socialite, painter, novelist, and the wife of American author F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda Fitzgerald's audacious spirit captivated those around her and she was a muse for much of her husband's literary work. Their famously turbulent marriage was fraught with alcoholism, violence, financial ups and downs, and Zelda's battle with mental health issues. Her own artistic endeavors include a semi-autobiographical novel, Save Me the Waltz, a play entitled Scandalabra, as well as numerous magazine articles, short stories and paintings. She died tragically on March 10, 1948 in a fire at Highland Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina.
Zelda Sayre, who would become author F. Scott Fitzgerald’s wife and muse.
Death
Due to Zelda’s failing health, she was unable to attend her daughter’s wedding in 1943, but after the birth of her grandson, Zelda was reinvigorated and began to paint again in the last years of her life in Montgomery at her family’s homestead. Ultimately, however, her mental health began to fail and, on March 10, 1948, she died tragically in a fire at Highland Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina. She is buried with her husband in Old Saint Mary's C
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Zelda, an Illustrated Life: Description Private Cosmos of Zelda Fitzgerald
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Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald (1900-1948)
Alabama Women's Hall of Fame
Author, dancer, and painter, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald is considered and assessed as a woman of exceptional energy and ability. Her novel, Save Me the Waltz, is described as "the deeply felt and carefully crafted expression of a creative, independent spirit."
Born in Montgomery, Alabama, Zelda attended The Margaret Booth School and Sidney Lanier High School.
In the summer of 1918, at a dance at the Montgomery Country Club, she met Army Lieutenant, F. Scott Fitzgerald. Following a stormy courtship of nearly two years, Zelda married him after the publication of his first novel. Their only child, Scottie, was born in October, 1921.
Several magazines published works by Zelda. "Friend Husband's Latest" appeared in New York Tribune, April 1922. "Miss Ella" (December 1931) and "A Couple of Nuts" (August 1932) were published by Scribner's Magazine. "Eulogy on the Flapper" was published by Metropolitan Magazine in June 1922 and "The Continental Angel" was published by The New Yorker in June 1932.
In Paris, at the age of 27, Zelda began to study ballet under Madame Lubov Egorova. Because of hard work and sheer determination, she made progress. Ult