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Zelda Fitzgerald (née Sayre; July 24, 1900 – March 10, 1948) was an American novelist, dancer, socialite, and the wife of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Born in Montgomery, Alabama, she became an icon of the 1920s—dubbed by her husband "the first American Flapper." After the success of his first novel, ''This Side of Paradise'' (1920), the Fitzgeralds became celebrities. After a life as an emblem of the Jazz Age, the Roaring Twenties, and the Lost Generation, Zelda Fitzgerald posthumously found a new role with the publication of Nancy Milford's best-selling ''Zelda: A Biography'' in 1970.〔Milford, Nancy - ''Zelda: A Biography'', Harper & Row, New York, 1970.〕 Milford's biography portrayed her as a victim of an overbearing husband, and she soon became a feminist icon.〔 In 1992, she was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame. == Biography == From early adolescence, Zelda was a formidable presence in Southern society in her hometown, outshining all the other belles as the star in ballet recitals and at elite country club events.〔 Shortly after finishing high school, she met F. Scott Fitzgerald at a country club dance, but was unimpressed and agreed with her family on his limited future financial prospects to provide for a family. With his professed infatuation, a light flirtation evolved into a lengthy long distance courtship of weekly letters, with Fitzgerald aware of her dating of other men. Determined to obtain financial security, and thereby Zelda, Fitzgerald increased his writing from articles to his first book.〔 On March 20, 1920, Scribner's Sons agreed to publish his novel ''This Side of Paradise'', and Fitzgerald immediately cabled Zelda, who agreed to travel to New York to marry and live with him. The couple wed in New York City on April 3, 1920, and later moved to Europe. As Scott began to receive acclaim for his first novel and his short stories, and the couple socialized with wealthy American expatriates and literary luminaries like Ernest Hemingway, however, their marriage was a tangle of jealousy, resentment and acrimony. Scott used their relationship as material in his novels, even lifting sections from Zelda's diary and assigning them to his fictional heroines. Seeking an artistic identity of her own, Zelda wrote magazine articles and short stories, and at 27 became obsessed with pursuing a career as a ballerina, practicing to exhaustion.〔 The strain of her tempestuous marriage, Scott's increasing alcoholism, and her growing instability presaged Zelda's admittance in 1930 to the Sheppard Pratt sanatorium in Towson, Maryland, where she was diagnosed with schizophrenia (though, according to scholars, she was more likely to have had bipolar disorder). While at the Phipps Psychiatric Clinic at Johns Hopkins University in 1932, she continued and finished a semi-autobiographical novel, ''Save Me the Waltz''. Scott was furious that she had used material from their life together in her book, and that she had sent the manuscript to Maxwell Perkins at Scribner's before his review. Scott demanded that sections of the book be deleted and that the publisher give him editorial control over what was in the book. The original version of the book does not survive. Zelda's novel, published in 1932, and Scott's novel ''Tender Is the Night'', published in 1934, provide contrasting portrayals of the couple's failing marriage. Back in America, in 1936 Zelda entered the Highland Mental Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina. Scott went to Hollywood where he tried screenwriting, and began a relationship with the movie columnist Sheilah Graham. Scott died in Hollywood in 1940, having last seen Zelda a year and a half earlier. Zelda spent her remaining years working on a second novel, which she never completed, and painted extensively. In 1948, she died when the hospital where she was residing caught fire.〔 Interest in the Fitzgeralds resurged shortly after her death, and the couple has since been the subject of numerous popular books, films, and scholarly attention. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Zelda Fitzgerald」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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