The Guardian
19 min ·


“It’s a story of boom and bust and it resonates as we are grappling with our own boom and bust, our own worries about the cost of our excesses and our own social failures. The lives and fortunes of Scott and Zelda peculiarly mimicked their eras: in the 1920s they were roaring for all they were worth, but with the crash in 1929, everything fell apart.”


Tragic, fascinating, brilliant – life of ‘wild child’ Zelda Fitzgerald revisited
Two films and a TV series out soon portray the life of the jazz-age writer and wife of F Scott Fitzgerald
THEGUARDIAN.COM|DE SARAH HUGHES