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Zelda Sayre was born in Montgomery, Alabama, on July 24, 1900, the youngest of six children. [1] Her parents were Episcopalians. [29] Her mother, Minerva Buckner "Minnie" Machen, named her daughter after the Roma heroine in a novel, presumably Jane Howard's "Zelda: A Tale of the Massachusetts Colony" (1866) or Robert Edward Francillon's "Zelda's Fortune" (1874). [30]
Milford was best known for her book Zelda about F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife Zelda Fitzgerald. The book started out as her master's thesis and was published to broad acclaim in 1970. It was a finalist for the National Book Award, spent 29 weeks on The New York Times best-seller list, and was eventually translated into 17 languages. [1] [2] [4]
The book is a fictionalized account of Zelda Fitzgerald's life. In her early life in Montgomery, Alabama , Fitzgerald is portrayed as the subject of desire by many men. Her future husband F. Scott Fitzgerald —stationed in Montgomery as a World War I soldier—asks her out, but Zelda's father is disapproving and Scott is initially unsuccessful ...
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. Kat ...
Save Me the Waltz is a 1932 novel by American writer Zelda Fitzgerald.It is a semi-autobiographical account of her life in the Deep South during the Jim Crow era and her marriage to F. Scott Fitzgerald. [1]
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The hotel is primarily inspired by Zelda Fitzgerald, who spent the last several years of her life in Asheville until her death in a tragic fire at Highland Hospital in Montford on March 10, 1948.
One life event relatable to "The Bridal Party" occurred when his then-fiancée, Zelda Sayre, broke off their engagement because of Fitzgerald's poor economic status. [5] After his novel This Side of Paradise was published, it provided him with almost instant success, and a week later he married Zelda. Around 1930, he was drinking "heavily when ...