Meanwhile, fate, in the form of the U.S. army, stationed him near Montgomery, Alabama in 1918, where he met and fell in love with an 18-year-old Southern belle - Zelda Sayre. Scribners rejected ...

A rebel from the start, Zelda Sayre was born in 1900 to a prominent Southern family in Montgomery, Alabama. Together with her childhood friend and future starlet Tallulah Bankhead, she developed a ...

where he fell in love with a celebrated belle, eighteen-year-old Zelda Sayre, convinced her that he would be a famous writer, promised her a glamorous life, and that he would make her immortal.

Fitzgerald's papers are housed in the Libraries' Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, as are those of his wife, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald; they will be the subject of a major exhibition ...