Zelda Sayre

"the American Dream Girl"

"I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally" 

They titled Zelda Sayre as the "American Dream Girl" because of her efficacious work. She was an artist, writer, dancer and the icon who established the roaring twenties.

Zelda Sayre was born Montgomery, Alabama on July 24, 1900 and died in 1948

     In a country club in Montgomery, it was very fortuitous that Zelda met her husband Scott Fitzgerald in 1918. She was 18 years old just coming out of High School and he was 21 years old in the army. On April 3, 1920,  Zelda married Scott at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City. In 1922, the they moved from Westport, Connecticut to Long Island, NY, where they were most famous for their “jazz age” reputations whether it was good or bad.   Both of them drank very heavily on a daily basis and had endless rounds of parties. Zelda and Scott were not penury Americans they lived the wealthy life. He was a great writer and so was she.   Their only child Frances "Scottie" Fitzgerald was born in 1921. Scottie was mostly brought  up by nannies, since Zelda and Scott were busy doing their own things.

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"By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future."- Zelda Fitzgerald 

*This quote symbolizes her lifelong struggle to become her own artistic character

          Zelda's interest of writing came from her mother. She wrote novels, short stories, and articles. In 1932 Zelda published her famous novel called Save Me The Waltz. The novel contained many annotations about her life, living in the shadows of her husband F. Scott Fitzgerald, where he expurgated texts from Zelda's writing. More of Zelda's novels were published after her death in 1948. Her short stories and articles were placed in popular magazines.

List of novels, short stories, and articles:

           In 1925, Zelda began developing two passions for paint and dance.  While her painting time, she had paintings of motley subjects such as macabre dancers and repulsive mothers with children, beautiful cityscapes and flowers, scenes from the Bible, fairy tales, and Alice in Wonderland. She also created paper dolls of her family and just plain paper dolls.  Zelda’s work was held in 1974, at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts in Alabama. The museum owns many of her artwork.

                         Mad Tea Party                                             Washington Square                                    Calla  Lillies                    Hope 

                    Brooklyn Bridge                                                  Alice in Wonderland

          By 1930s, Zelda's obsession for ballet grew, their marriage began to abate. It was Zelda, who was cuplable of being sent to the mental institution for becoming over the top obsessed with ballet. She studied dancing since she was a little girl, but at the age of 27 she had a desire to become a professional dancer. Scott on the other hand thought it was a foolish idea. Zelda dedicated herself and her time into dancing. She first became "crazy" on April 1930 because she was worried she would be late to the lesson. After that meltdown she was sent to Prangins Clinic in Switzerland, where she was diagnosed as schizophrenic. A couple years later she died.