“afraid we might have touched the same material.”
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Zelda Fitzgerald
Zelda Fitzgerald was an American novelist, painter, writer, and socialite. Born in Montgomery, Alabama, to a wealthy Southern family, she became locally famous for her beauty and high spirits. In 1920, she married writer F. Scott Fitzgerald after the popular success of his debut novel, This Side of Paradise. The novel catapulted the young couple into the public eye, and she became known in the nat…
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culture · American writer (1900–1948) · novelist · poet · autobiographer · writer · socialite · journalist · artist · painter · dancer · also Zelda Fitzgerald, Zelda Sayre, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald
Born 24 July 1900 · Died 10 March 1948 · Q187324
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2026· 4 entries
“a third-rate writer and a third-rate ballet dancer.”
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“I knew something had happened that could never be repaired.”
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Public attention spiked: 2,823 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.3× the usual 864, with 0 article edits.
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2025· 1 entry
American Songwriter: Delirium & Zelda Fitzgerald: How a Flu-Ridden Don Henley Wrote This Top 10 Eagles Hit
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2023· 1 entry
Hatteras Sky and Lark Hotels planned three boutique hotels in Asheville, North Carolina, two of which will have Zelda Fitzgerald themes
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2003· 1 entry
A wild turkey which roamed Battery Park in New York City was named Zelda due to a famous episode when, during one of her nervous breakdowns, she went missing and was found in Battery Park, apparently having walked severa
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1992· 3 entries
Awarded Alabama Women's Hall of Fame (1992).
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Was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame
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Zelda and her daughter Scottie were posthumously inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame
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1991· 1 entry
Zelda's collected writings including Save Me the Waltz were edited by Matthew J
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1979· 1 entry
"the sensuality arises from Alabama's awareness of the life surge within her, the consciousness of the body, the natural imagery through which not only emotions but simple facts are expressed, the overwhelming presence o
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1970· 2 entries
However, the history of Zelda and Scott's marriage saw its most profound revision in a book by Nancy Milford, a graduate student at Columbia University
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By Fitzgerald scholar Richard Anderson and published in 2016
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1968· 1 entry
That Zelda's novel Save Me the Waltz was "worth reading partly because anything that illuminates the career of F
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1951· 1 entry
By Cornell University professor Arthur Mizener's The Far Side of Paradise, a biography of F
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1950· 1 entry
Acquaintance and screenwriter Budd Schulberg wrote The Disenchanted, with characters based recognizably on the Fitzgeralds who end up as forgotten former celebrities, he awash with alcohol and she befuddled by mental ill
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1948· 1 entry
Died 1948-03-10.
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1936· 1 entry
Scott placed her in the Highland Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina, writing to friends:
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1934· 2 entries
The critical response proved equally disappointing
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Sat through long hours of rehearsals of her one play, Scandalabra, staged by a Little Theater group in Baltimore; he spent many hours editing the short stories she sold to College Humor and to Scribner's Magazine
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1932· 3 entries
Scribner's published Save Me the Waltz with a printing of 3,010 copies—not unusually low for a first novel in the middle of the Great Depression—on cheap paper, with a cover of green linen
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Over her husband's objections, Fitzgerald was admitted by The Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, where her treatment was overseen by Dr
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“s objections, Fitzgerald was admitted by The Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, where her treatment was overseen by Dr. Adolf Meyer, an expert on schizophrenia. As part of her recovery routine, she spent at least two hours a day writing a manuscript. At the Phipps Clinic, Zelda developed a bond with Dr. Mildred Squires, a female resident. When Dr. Squires asked Scott to speculate why Zelda”
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1930· 2 entries
Moved to Valmont sanatorium in Montreux, Switzerland
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The Malmaison Clinic near Paris admitted her for observation
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1921· 1 entry
Gave birth to Frances "Scottie" Fitzgerald
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1920· 2 entries
The couple traveled in a touring car—which Scott derogatorily nicknamed "the rolling junk"—to her parents' home in Montgomery
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And Zelda traveled by train to New York wearing a Confederate gray suit
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1919· 1 entry
Was discharged from the military and went north to establish himself in New York City
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1918· 1 entry
Scott professed his affections for Zelda
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1914· 1 entry
Zelda began attending Sidney Lanier High School
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1900· 1 entry
Born 1900-07-24.
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1866· 1 entry
“Zelda: A Tale of the Massachusetts Colony”
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