Experience the Jazz Age with novels and nonfiction exploring the Roaring Twenties and the tragic lives of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.
FICTION
Beautiful Fools: The Last Affair of Zelda & Scott Fitzgerald by R. Clifton Spargo
In 1939 Scott is living in Hollywood, a virulent alcoholic and deeply in debt. He arranges a trip to Cuba in an attempt to save his fractured marriage to Zelda. But even in paradise, Scott and Zelda cannot escape the
dangerous intensity of their relationship.
Call Me Zelda by Erika Robuck
Fighting to forge an identity independent of her famous husband as she teeters on the brink of madness, Zelda Fitzgerald is committed to a psychiatric hospital in 1932. She finds a sympathetic friend in nurse Anne Howard, who is held captive by her own tragic past.
Gatsby’s Girl by Caroline Preston
Based on the life of Genevra King, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s first love and muse, from their first meeting, through their intense epistolary romance, to her marriage to a dashing young aviator, as she reflects on what her life would have been if she had chosen the writer instead.
The Gin Lovers by Jamie Brenner
Living with her controlling husband in 1920s New York, socialite Charlotte Delacorte’s life changes when her sister-in-law Mae takes up residence with the couple and introduces Charlotte to the flapper revolution.
The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell
A typist for the NYC Police Department in 1923, prim, old-fashioned Rose Baker becomes obsessed with a glamorous newcomer and her world of bobbed hair, smoking, and speakeasies.
A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion by Ron Hansen
A tale based on a true story from 1920s Manhattan follows the affair between voluptuous Ruth Snyder and undergarment salesman Judd Gray, whose plot to kill Ruth’s husband triggers an explosive police investigation.
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler
A tale inspired by the marriage of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald follows their union in defiance of her father’s opposition and her scandalous transformation into a Jazz Age celebrity in the literary party scenes of New York, Paris, and the French Riviera.
NONFICTION
Bobbed Hair & Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties by Marion Meade (CD book)
A portrait of four extraordinary writers–Dorothy Parker, Zelda Fitzgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Edna Ferber–whose loves, lives, and literary endeavors embodied the spirit of the 1920s.
The Bobbed Haired Bandit: A True Story of Crime & Celebrity in 1920s New York by Stephen Duncombe & Andrew Mattson
A tale of flappers and fast cars, sex and morality, celebrity and crime ripped straight from the headlines of the Jazz Age.
Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald edited by Jackson R. Bryer & Cathy W. Barks
A collection of love letters recreates one of the most famous love stories in modern history, while revealing some new information about Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.
F. Scott Fitzgerald by Ruth Prigozy
Scott Fitzgerald’s life reads like one of his own stories: a young man of great promise marries into wealth, but beneath the golden surface lie alcoholism, debt, insecurity, and in Fitzgerald’s particular case, the mental instability of his beautiful, unconventional wife, Zelda.
Sometimes Madness Is Wisdom: Zelda & Scott Fitzgerald: A Marriage by Kendall Taylor
A new perspective into the tumultuous marriage of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald details their complex relationship, which eventually resulted in his becoming an incurable alcoholic and her descent into madness.
Zelda Fitzgerald: Her Voice in Paradise by Sally Cline
A portrait of the Jazz Age artist and wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald traces their dysfunctional marriage, Zelda’s work as a painter and dancer, and her struggle to define herself despite the glamorous flapper identity placed upon her by her husband.