ZELDA FITZGERALD

ENTERTAINMENT
The First Of Many Upcoming Zelda Fitzgerald Retrospectives Has Arrived
By Sara Boboltz
The Amazon series, though, doesn't trust its audience to love Zelda despite her flaws.
PARENTS
These Are The Best Name Ideas For 2017 Babies
From Alden to Zelda.
ARTS & CULTURE
Jennifer Lawrence Will Play Zelda Fitzgerald In The Ultimate Cool Girl Mashup
By Maddie Crum
We’re not razzing you. It’ll be real copacetic.
WOMEN
8 Women Whose Influence On Famous Men Changed History For The Better
By Taylor Pittman
Giving credit where credit is due.
BOOKS
Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald Day in Asheville
By Anne Margaret Daniel, Contributor
professor; writer; redhead. Editor, F. Scott Fitzgerald, I'D D...
Asheville, North Carolina, celebrated its first "Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald Day" on March 10th. According to the Asheville Citizen-Times announcement, the day of events all over town featured much for everyone, and promises to be a bright annual springtime event on calendars to come.
BOOKS
11 Literary Biopics We Need Right Now
By Off the Shelf, Contributor
Read. Recommend. Repeat.
Since the beginnings of film, literature has played a significant role in developing the medium. Adaptations are everywhere, but here are some literary tales that we hope inspire more stories on the silver screen.
BOOKS
Happy Birthday, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald
By Anne Margaret Daniel, Contributor
professor; writer; redhead. Editor, F. Scott Fitzgerald, I'D D...
Despite strife and money troubles, illness and depression and The Great Depression, their honeymoon went on for the next twenty years. If you don't believe that, just read Scott and Zelda's letters to each other.
CULTURE & ARTS
Eerie Photos Of The Abandoned Mental Institution That Once Housed Zelda Fitzgerald
By Priscilla Frank
In Beacon, New York, lies a stunning, gothic mansion -- once a mental institution, one that has not opened its doors in over
CULTURE & ARTS
The Art of Zelda Fitzgerald
By Anne Margaret Daniel, Contributor
professor; writer; redhead. Editor, F. Scott Fitzgerald, I'D D...
Zelda Fitzgerald is, still, best known as the wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald. True, Zelda was an inspiration for heroines and dialogue in his stories, and half of the golden couple of what Scott dubbed "The Jazz Age," but she was also an accomplished writer, and artist.
BOOKS
F. Scott Fitzgerald's Last Will and Testament
By Anne Margaret Daniel, Contributor
professor; writer; redhead. Editor, F. Scott Fitzgerald, I'D D...
He died in Hollywood on December 21, 1940, eating a chocolate bar and making notes in pencil on a football story in the Princeton Alumni Weekly. The last words F. Scott Fitzgerald ever wrote complimented the author of the story: "Good prose."
CULTURE & ARTS
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda Sayre, and Montgomery, Alabama in 2013
By Anne Margaret Daniel, Contributor
professor; writer; redhead. Editor, F. Scott Fitzgerald, I'D D...
Last week I joined close to 200 Fitzgerald scholars, admirers, students, readers, and teachers from all over the world -- though readers, and admirers, serves to define us all.
BOOKS
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby Is Being Rewritten by Its Characters
By Anne Margaret Daniel, Contributor
professor; writer; redhead. Editor, F. Scott Fitzgerald, I'D D...
A new memoir has begun in the Believer magazine, with the first installment just published. It's by Robert Atwan, writing as "Thomas Buchanan." Yes, that Tom Buchanan, Daisy's husband, Nick's Yale frenemy, Gatsby's nemesis.
WOMEN
Zelda Wasn't 'Crazy': How What You Don't Know About Fitzgerald Tells Us Something About 'Crazy' Women, Then and Now
By Heather Laine Talley, Contributor
Sociologist and Writer www.heatherlainetalley.com
The "crazy" Zelda that has emerged in our popular imagination is as much Scott's making as The Great Gatsby itself. This is, in and of itself, part of the F. Scott legacy. His work depended on Zelda's silence.
CULTURE & ARTS
At Scott and Zelda's Final Resting Place, Gatsby Lives
By Michael Winship, Contributor
Former senior writer, BillMoyers.com. President, Writers Guild...
With all the fanfare around the new movie version of The Great Gatsby, directed by Baz Luhrmann with a screenplay by Luhrmann and Craig Pearce, it's a great time to go back to the book and be reminded of F. Scott Fitzgerald's elegant, graceful writing.
BOOKS
The Fitzgeralds of Montgomery, Alabama
By Keith Runyon, Contributor
Retired editorial page editor, The Courier-Journal
Thirty-nine years ago, as a very young Courier-Journal reporter, I traveled south by train to Montgomery, Alabama, to connect with the world that novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda, knew in the early part of the 20th century.
BOOKS
52 Books, 52 Weeks, Week 15: A Roaring Zelda
By Catherine McKenzie, Contributor
Bestselling author of HIDDEN and FRACTURED
Zelda and Fitzgerald meet at a country club dance in her hometown in Alabama 1918 when she's just seventeen years old. He's a young army officer full of ambition to become a famous writer, and she's a restless and slightly spoiled girl with an overwhelming sense of fun.
BOOKS
What Did F. Scott Fitzgerald Think of The Great Gatsby, the Movie, in 1926? He Walked Out
By Anne Margaret Daniel, Contributor
professor; writer; redhead. Editor, F. Scott Fitzgerald, I'D D...
I have my own opinions on former film versions, and I think they all fail for the same reason: Fitzgerald's language has already done all the cinematic work for the actors, directors, set designers and producers. Baz Luhrmann's new movie may well supersede the earlier film Gatsbys, but can it supersede the novel?
BOOKS
A Day for Beautiful and Not-So-Beautiful Fools: F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Practical Joker
By R. Clifton Spargo, Contributor
Author of Beautiful Fools
There are many, many ways to play the fool, and Scott and Zelda tried more than a few of them. In the early 1920s life was all fun and games for the world's best known flapper and her writer husband -- and being famous, it often seemed, was nothing more than a lark.
BOOKS
A Financial Asset -- Debunking Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
By Anne Margaret Daniel, Contributor
professor; writer; redhead. Editor, F. Scott Fitzgerald, I'D D...
There were so many terrific words and phrases in the '20s, why not use them? If you're claiming your novel strives for verisimilitude with the lives, and if you cite to the biographies and letters and critical studies, then make the language real, too.
BOOKS
The Reluctant Irishman: F. Scott Fitzgerald and Me
By R. Clifton Spargo, Contributor
Author of Beautiful Fools
This Saint Patrick's Day, on a holiday when everybody becomes Irish without worrying about the burdens, joys, and costs of being Irish in history, let's remember America's great Irish writer, Scott Fitzgerald.
DC
F. Scott Fitzgerald's Baltimore Home Is On The Market, And It's Reasonably Priced (PHOTOS)
The Baltimore house where F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote some of his most notable works, and lived some of his toughest years
ENTERTAINMENT
HuffPost Review: Midnight in Paris
By Marshall Fine, Contributor
Author, film critic, filmmaker
There's a strain of magical realism that runs through the filmography of Woody Allen that pops up -- and delightfully so -- in his newest film, Midnight in Paris.
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