Fitzgerald, Zelda

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.