Scott and zelda fitzgerald

Zelda Fitzgerald went straight from the quiet streets of Montgomery, Alabama, to the front page of the New York Times style section. Alongside her equally glittering husband, F. Scott Fitzgerald, s…

Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald in the south of France, ca. the late twenties. “Fitzgerald never seemed to Gerald and Sara Murphy to be a writer on the same level as Hemingway ... They felt that Hemingway was the important writer, the one who was breaking new ground in prose. I don’t think they had the same feeling about Scott, and as a consequence, the idea that he was writing a novel about them did not fill them with joy.”

Baz Luhrmann’s upcoming rendition of The Great Gatsby has many people excited, but beyond our distorted view of the Roaring twenties, few actually know about the triumphant, tumultuous and tr…

The Golden 1920s couple didn't fare as well in the 1930s, and the North Carolina mountain town was host to a particularly sad time. NPR's Susan Stamberg discovered a little-known story of the Jazz Age darlings and their devastating connections to Asheville.

In the summer of 1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda, spent their honeymoon in Westport, Connecticut. It was there, in the sleepy town 50 miles

In 1933, Fitzgerald wrote an adorable letter to his daughter, who was away at camp. In it, he provided the secret to happiness.

F. Scott Fitzgerald ("The Great Gatsby") and wife Zelda in the Antibes, 1926.

Learn the story behind the writer whose work encapsulates the Jazz Age.

Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald (July 24, 1900 – March 10, 1948), born Zelda Sayre in Montgomery, Alabama, was an American novelist and the wife of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. In 1936, Zelda entered the Highland Mental Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina, and she was in and out of this facility until her death. Scott died in Hollywood in 1940, having last seen Zelda a year and a half earlier. She spent her remaining years working on a second novel, which she never completed, and she painted…