Zelda Fitzgerald
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Zelda Fitzgerald was an American novelist, painter, writer, and socialite. Born in Montgomery, Alabama, to a wealthy Southern family, she became locally famous for her beauty and high spirits. In 1920
Fitzgerald in 1923
F. Scott Fitzgerald photographed in 1917, a few months before meeting Zelda in Montgomery, Alabama
While courting Zelda Sayre, F. Scott Fitzgerald continued to write to Ginevra King, a socialite and heiress, begging her to resume their former relationship.
After marrying in April 1920, Zelda became homesick for the Deep South, prompting her and Scott to embark on a road trip that summer to visit her family in Montgomery, Alabama
Ginevra King
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Ginevra King Pirie was an American socialite and heiress. As one of the self-proclaimed "Big Four" debutantes of Chicago during World War I, King inspired many characters in the novels and short stori
Zelda Fitzgerald
…F. Scott Fitzgerald at the Montgomery Country Club. At the time, Fitzgerald had been freshly rejected by his first love, Chicago socialite and heiress Ginevra King, due to his lack of financial prospects. Heartbroken by this rejection, Scott had dropped out of Princeton University and volunteered for the United…
Portrait of Ginevra King, June 1915
Chicago Tribune article describing King's wedding which Fitzgerald kept in his scrapbook with the note: "The end of a once poignant story."
Fitzgerald in 1937, roughly a year before his final meeting with Ginevra King