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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]
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.
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 ]
An Alabama death row inmate was executed Thursday evening by nitrogen gas, but not before a Tex-Mex-style last meal and a profane rant directed at the execution staff. Carey Dale Grayson had been ...
Zelda had written a letter eulogizing the Confederate soldiers who died during the American Civil War. "I've spent today in the graveyard," she wrote to Scott, "Isn't it funny how, out of a row of Confederate soldiers, two or three will make you think of dead lovers and dead loves—when they're exactly like the others, even to the yellowish moss."
Zelda was the daughter of Anthony D. Sayre, an Alabama politician and white supremacist who authored the infamous 1893 Sayre Act which disenfranchised black Alabamians for seventy years and ushered in the racially segregated Jim Crow period in the state.
South Carolina death row inmate Richard Moore has selected lethal injection as his method of execution. Moore made the choice in an affidavit signed Friday and submitted to the South Carolina ...
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