Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald was born the daughter of a prominent judge in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1900. She died in a fire at the Highland Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina, in 1948. Matthew J. Bruccoli, the foremost expert on F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, is the Jefferies Professor of English at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. Mary Gordon has most recently published Good Boys and Bad Girls, a collection of essays, and the novel Shadow Man.
The University of Alabama Press
Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0380
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Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, Circus, c. 1938, oil on canvas.
(Collection of the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama. Gift of the Artist)