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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]
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 ...
The sudden death of Fitzgerald's mother and Zelda's mental deterioration led to his marriage further disintegrating. [234] He saw Zelda for the last time on a 1939 trip to Cuba. [217] During this trip, spectators at a cockfight beat Fitzgerald when he tried to intervene against animal cruelty. [235]
When, shortly after his death, Zelda Fitzgerald attempted to sell her husband's papers to Princeton for $3,750, the librarian declined the offer. The university had no obligation, he commented, to support the widow of a second-rate Midwestern hack who'd been lucky enough to attend Princeton.
Frances Scott "Scottie" Fitzgerald (October 26, 1921 – June 18, 1986) was an American writer and journalist and the only child of novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald. She matriculated from Vassar College and worked for The Washington Post , The New Yorker , and other publications. [ 1 ]
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.
A new hotel on Biltmore Avenue in the South Slope will turn three century-old homes into a 20-room hotel honoring Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald.
In Winter of 1929, Zelda Fitzgerald's mental health abruptly deteriorated. [19] Soon after, during an automobile trip to Paris along the mountainous roads of the Grande Corniche, Zelda seized the car's steering wheel and tried to kill herself, her husband F. Scott Fitzgerald, and their 9-year-old daughter Scottie by driving over a cliff.