Save Me The Waltz

Biographie de Zelda Fitzgerald

Zelda Fitzgerald was born in Montgomery, Alabama in 1900, the daughter of an Alabama Supreme Court judge. She became a 'roarer' of the pre-1920s and met F. Scott Fitzgerald at one of the many social dances she attended. They married in 1920 and began a decade of riotous living in France and America, a period in which F. Scott Fitzgerald was writing prolifically. Eager to match her husband's celebrity Zelda took up painting and tried to become a dancer. The couple became increasingly eccentric and erratic; Scott became an alcoholic and Zelda developed schizophrenia. In 1932 Zelda became seriously ill and wrote Save me the Waltz in six weeks to the envy of her husband who had been working on Tender is the Night for more than five years. Zelda's last years were spent in various sanatoriums and in 1947 she died in a fire.