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Fitzgerald, Zelda(nee Sayre)

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Born: 1900 AD
Died: 1948 AD, at 47 years of age.

Nationality: American
Categories: Authors

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1900 - Was born on  the 24th of July in Montgomery, Alabama.

 

1920 - Married the writer F. Scott Fitzgerald.

 

1924 - Zelda had a brief affair with a dashing young French pilot, Edouard Jozan.

 

1927 - Became obsessed with ballet, which she had studied as a girl.

 

1930 - Suffered her first mental breakdown, which eventually led to her being sent to a mental hospital.

 

1932 - Published an autobiographical novel, Save Me the Waltz.

 

1948 - She died on the 10th of March in a fire at the Highland Mental Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina.

 

 

 






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