Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald : an American woman's life

Linda Wagner-Martin's Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald is a twenty-first century story. Using cultural and gender studies as contexts, Wagner-Martin brings new information to the story of the Alabama judge's daughter who, at seventeen, met her husband-to-be, Scott Fitzgerald. Swept away from her stable home life into Jazz Age New York and Paris, Zelda eventually learned to be a writer and a painter; and she came close to being a ballerina. An evocative portrayal of a talented woman's professional and emotional conflicts, this study contains extensive notes and new photographs.

• List of Illustrations p. ix
• Preface p. xi
• Acknowledgments p. xiii
• Short Titles and Abbreviations p. xiv
• 1 The Belle p. 1
• 2 The Courtship p. 25
• 3 Celebrity Couple p. 41
• 4 Travels p. 61
• 5 Europe Once More p. 77
• 6 Hollywood and Ellerslie p. 95
• 7 Zelda as Artist: Dancer and Writer p. 107
• 8 The Crack-Up, 1930 p. 120
• 9 On the Way to Being Cured p. 138
• 10 The Phipps Clinic and Baltimore p. 154
• 11 Zelda as Patient p. 174
• 12 The Crack-Up, 1936 p. 187
• 13 Endings p. 197
• Notes p. 212
• Bibliography p. 234
• Index p. 244