Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald was born in Montgomery on July 24, 1900. An artist, dancer and writer, she and her husband, F. Scott Fitzgerald, came to be icons of the Roaring Twenties and the conspicuous consumption that came with it. Zelda’s personality was larger than life, her relationship with Scott tumultuous, and their parties legendary. Following their return from France, the Fitzgeralds lived in the Cloverdale neighborhood of Montgomery. A long descent into mental illness clouded her last decade and she died in a sanitarium fire in 1948.
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