Zelda Fitzgerald
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 Zelda Fitzgerald facts

• Scott Fitzgerald, whose work she strongly influenced
• Born in Montgomery, Alabama, she was noted for her beauty and high spirits, and was d믭 by her husband as "the first American Flapper"
• She and Scott became the emblem of the Jazz Age, for which they are still celebrated
• The immediate success of Scott's first novel This Side of Paradise (1920) brought them into contact with high society, but their marriage was plagued by wild drinking, infidelity and bitter recriminations
• Ernest Hemingway, whom Zelda disliked, blamed her for Scott's declining literary output, though she has also been portrayed as the victim of an overbearing husband
• After being diagnosed with schizophrenia, she was increasingly confined to specialist clinics, and the couple were living apart when Scott died suddenly in 1940
• Zelda died later in a fire at her hospital in Asheville, North Carolina
• Recent writers and scholars have portrayed Zelda as a creative talent ignored by the patriarchal society of the day
• A 1970 biography by Nancy Milford was on the short list of contenders for the Pulitzer Prize
• In 1992, Zelda was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame