num_pages: 426
description: Zelda Sayre began as a Southern beauty, became an international wonder, and died by fire in a madhouse. With her husband, F. Scott Fitzgerald, she moved in a golden aura of excitement, romance, and promise. The epitome of the Jazz Age, together they rode the crest of the era: to its collapse and their own.From years of exhaustive research, Nancy Milford brings alive the tormented, elusive personality of Zelda and clarifies as never before her relationship with Scott Fitzgerald. Zelda traces the inner disintegration of a gifted, despairing woman, torn by the clash between her husband's career and her own talent.
language: English
title: Zelda
titlecomplete: Zelda
characters: Zelda Fitzgerald
genres: Unfinished, Historical, Biography, Womens, Mental Illness, Feminism, Nonfiction, History, Memoir, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 10309
awards: awardedAt: 31564800000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Arts and Letters
publisher: HarperCollins