by Mary Gordon (Introduction), Mary Gordon (Introduction), Matthew J. Bruccoli (Editor), Zelda Fitzgerald (Author)
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 Fitzgerald's adventures in Paris and on the Riviera; her celebrated farce, Scandalabra ; 11 short stories; 12 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.
Format: Illustrated
Pages: 512
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
Published: 30 Apr 1997
ISBN 10: 0817308849
ISBN 13: 9780817308841
Matthew J. Bruccoli is the foremost expert on F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald. He has written or edited more than a score of books on the Fitzgeralds, including F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Life in Letters, Some Sort of Epic Grandeur, and The Romantic Egoists. He is the Jefferies Professor of English at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. Mary Gordon has most recently published Good Boys and Dead Girls, a collection of essays, and the novel Shadow Man.