Zelda Fitzgerald

Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald has long been perceived as the tragic "other half" of the Scott and Zelda legend. Born in Montgomery, Alabama, this southern belle turned flapper was talented in dance, painting, and writing but lived in the shadow of her husband's success. Her writing can be experienced on its own terms in Matthew Bruccoli's meticulously edited Zelda Fitzgerald: The Collected Writings.

The collection includes Zelda's only published novel, Save Me the Waltz, an autobiographical account of the Fitzgeralds' adventures in Paris and on the Riviera; her celebrated farce, Scandalabra; eleven short stories; twelve articles; and a selection of letters to her husband, written over the span of their marriage, that reveals the couple's loving and turbulent relationship.

Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald has long been an American cultural icon. The Collected Writings affirms her place as a writer and as a symbol not only of the Lost Generation but of all generations as she struggled to define herself through her art.

"There are literary pleasures aplenty here -- an offbeat intelligence, free-flowing wit, and sensuous, painterly descriptions". -- The New York Times, Book Review

"An essential volume ..., it presents Zelda as a highly expressive artist in her own right", -- San Francisco Chronicle

"This volume, graciously introduced by Mary Gordon, finally makes this witty, lushly descriptive, 'unsettling, ' and frequently surreal body of work accessible.... Zelda emerges as an artist finely attuned to both the irony and beauty of life". -- Booklist