Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald: An American Woman's Life

About this book

Linda Wagner-Martins Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald is a twenty-first century story. Using cultural and gender studies as contexts Wagner-Martin brings new information to the story of the Alabama judges daughter who at seventeen met her husband-to-be Scott Fitzgerald. Swept away from her stable home life into Jazz Age New York and Paris Zelda eventually learned to be a writer and a painter; and she came close to being a ballerina. An evocative portrayal of a talented womans professional and emotional conflicts this study contains extensive notes and new photographs.