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  1. Signature. Zelda Fitzgerald ( née Sayre; July 24, 1900 – March 10, 1948) was an American novelist, painter, playwright, and socialite. [1] Born in Montgomery, Alabama, to a wealthy Southern family, she became locally famous for her beauty and high spirits. [1]

  2. Jun 21, 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.

  3. www.biography.com › authors-writers › zelda-fitzgeraldZelda Fitzgerald Biography

    Feb 21, 2017 · Best Known For: American author, artist and socialite Zelda Fitzgerald was the wife and muse of author F. Scott Fitzgerald and an icon of the Roaring Twenties. Astrological Sign: Leo

  4. Jan 12, 2021 · In 1940 F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in despair to his wife, Zelda Fitzgerald, saying that he was a "forgotten man," due to his declining literary reputation in the wake of the failure of his third and fourth novels, The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night.

  5. 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.

  6. 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...

  7. 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.

  8. Z: The Beginning of Everything: Created by Dawn Prestwich, Nicole Yorkin. With Christina Ricci, David Hoflin, Kristine Nielsen, David Strathairn. The story of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, a brilliant and beautiful Southern belle who became the original flapper and icon of the wild, flamboyant Jazz Age.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.