The Collected Writings of Zelda Fitzgerald

About this book

The voice behind the legendZelda Fitzgerald in her own words. Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald has long been perceived as the tragic "other half" of the Scott and Zelda legend. Born in Montgomery Alabama the high-spirited tomboy turned flapper was talented in dance painting and writing but lived in the shadow of her husbands success. Her writing can be experienced on its own terms in Matthew Bruccolis meticulously edited The Collected Writings of Zelda Fitzgerald. The collection includes Zeldas only published novel Save Me the Waltz an autobiographical account of the Fitzgeralds adventures in Paris and on the Riviera; her celebrated farce Scandalabra; eleven short stories; twelve articles; and a selection of letters to her husband written over the span of their marriage that reveals the couples loving and turbulent relationship. Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald has long been an American cultural icon. The Collected Writings affirms her place as a writer and as a symbol not only of the Lost Generation but of all generations as she struggled to define herself through her art.