She was the daughter of a dour justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. Stationed at Fort Sheridan, Scott met and courted the belle of Montgomery in July of 1918. Cline, like any biographer, brings her biases to the table. Any problems here lie not in shallow research but in her interpretations of that research. Cline has read everything-letters, diaries, memoirs-and held dozens of interviews. Scott Fitzgerald in Montgomery she was already famous/notorious in Alabama for her wit, physical daring and risqué behavior.Īs the subtitle says, this biography is indeed meticulously researched. Several full-length biographies have attempted to explain her. Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald was a charismatic, vivacious, beautiful, enigmatic, creative, deeply disturbed woman. “Zelda Fitzgerald: The Tragic, Meticulously Researched Biography of the Jazz Age’s High Priestess”
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