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Zelda

Updated: March 30, 2024

Zelda Fitzgerald, the embodiment of the 1920's woman.


Book cover for The romantic egoists : [Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald]
The romantic egoists : [Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald]
Bruccoli, Matthew J. (Matthew Joseph), 1931-2008.
Call Number: 813 F553Br-4 folio

Edited by the Fitzgeralds' only childm, daughter Scottie Fitzgerald, this gorgeous scrapbook-format tribute to her parents is well worth a look.


Save me the waltz [by] Zelda Fitzgerald.
Fitzgerald, Zelda, 1900-1948.
Call Number: Ed.a

Zelda's extraordinary (if somewhat unreadable) autobiographical novel, written in four weeks while she was institutionalized.


Book cover for Scottie, the daughter of-- : the life of Frances Scott Fitzgerald Lanahan Smith
Scottie, the daughter of-- : the life of Frances Scott Fitzgerald Lanahan Smith
Lanahan, Eleanor Anne, 1948-
Call Number: 813 F553Lan

Penned by Eleanor Lanahan, granddaughter of Zelda and Scott, this biography of her mother Scottie is well balanced and fascinating.  After the tragic loss of her parents, Scottie went on to become a well-connected Washington hostess and journalist, as well as a woman who struggled with alcoholism, motherhood and the demons of her own unconventional childhood.


Book cover for The St. Paul stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
The St. Paul stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940.

Of her husband's vast output of exceptional short stories, Zelda considered these to be Scott's best.


This side of paradise
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940.
Call Number: Ed.e

F. Scott Fitzgerald's first novel, published in 1920 when he was only 23.  The book that started it all!


Book cover for Zelda, an illustrated life : the private world of Zelda Fitzgerald
Zelda, an illustrated life : the private world of Zelda Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald, Zelda, 1900-1948.
Call Number: 813 F554F

Chock full of glossy color prints of Zelda's surviving artwork.  See for yourself what all the fuss is about.


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