Art: Work of a Wife

There was a time when Mrs. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was a more fabulous character than her novel-writing husband. That was when she was Zelda Sayre, a Montgomery, Ala. girl, over whose home Wartime aviation officers from nearby Taylor Field used to stunt until their commanding officer told them to stop. When she married Scott Fitzgerald in 1920 shortly after he published This Side of Paradise she lapsed into the semiobscurity of a wife of a famed novelist.

Zelda Fitzgerald loved motion and dance. For a while she studied in Paris under Maria Egarova,...

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