S30E19: Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald
Today, Alicia has the sad tale of the King and Queen of the Jazz Age, writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald. Though they never divorced, the story is a great illustration of the reality that some marriages don’t work, and a lot of people would be better off ending a marriage rather than staying in it. That’s what Alicia wishes that Zelda had decided, dancing away from their doomed marriage a century ago instead of disappearing into it.
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Alicia’s Receipts
Zelda Fitzgerald: The Tragic, Meticulously Researched Biography of the Jazz Age’s High Priestess
The Subversive Art of Zelda Fitzgerald
Sometimes Madness is Wisdom: Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald: A Marriage
Exiles from Paradise: Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald
Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Life in Letters
The Collected Writings of Zelda Fitzgerald
Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story