Best books...chosen by Therese Anne Fowler

In her latest novel, the author assumes the voice of Zelda Fitzgerald to tell the story of her celebrated marriage to F. Scott Fitzgerald.

In her new novel, Z, Therese Anne Fowler assumes the voice of Zelda Fitzgerald to recount the story of the young Southern belle who, by wedding F. Scott Fitzgerald, launched one of the most famous literary marriages of the 20th century.

Save Me the Waltz by Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald (out of print). A modernist, semi-autobiographical novel about a tormented ballet dancer and her tormented artist husband. Published by Scribner’s but heavily edited—first by F. Scott Fitzgerald, in order to “control the message”—it has moments of brilliance and begs for further care and development.

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