Description: Through his alcoholism and her mental illness, his career lows and her institutional confinement, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's devotion to each other endured for over twenty-two years. Now, for the first time, we have the story of their love in the couple's own letters. Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda consists of more than seventy-five percent previously unpublished or out-of-print letters as well as extensive narrative on the Fitzgeralds' marriage by Fitzgerald scholars Jackson R. Bryer and Cathy W. Barks. Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda also features a candid introduction by Eleanor Lanahan, the Fitzgeralds' granddaughter.
Brief description: Zelda Fitzgerald was born in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1900. She and F. Scott Fitzgerald married in 1920, and the following year she gave birth to their daughter, Frances "Scottie" Fitzgerald. Throughout their marriage, Zelda inspired Fitzgerald's novels and their characters. She also authored several short stories and novels, including Save Me the Waltz. She died in 1948.