After having been infatuated with the image, legend and talents of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald I decided to go all out and make a tribute to her legacy and share it with others! Hers was a talent that was sadly unappreciated, and I have here a gallery of Zelda's many paintings that she did while hospitalized in the 1930s and 1940s, as well as pictures of the paper dolls she made of herself, Scott, and Scottie. I do not have the dates to these, but they are titled at least. I also enclose some photographs of Zelda and her family that I have accumulated from various webpages over the past year and a half, and I will update as I find new ones.
one of Zelda's favorite flowers, the peony
I was intrigued by Zelda only after I became a fan of her husband, F. Scott Fitzgerald. I am fascinated with the Jazz Age and I still wish I could have been alive during that golden era. After a while I was interested in learning about Zelda, after whom nearly all of Scott's famous heroines were modelled after. I found a copy of her biography "Zelda" by Nancy Milford and her only novel "Save Me the Waltz", and I immersed myself in her magic. I wanted to learn more, so I bought "The Collected Writings of Zelda Fitzgerald" and "Sometimes Madness is Wisdom: Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald- a Marriage", and I soon found myself cutting my hair to match how she had it and trying to mimic her careless manners. But I realize that I cannot become Zelda, because there never will be anyone like her ever again. So to her I dedicate this webpage and the many galleries of her paintings and photographs in hope that this helps everyone realize even to a small degree that she was a most brilliant, gifted woman and there never will be a match to her. This site was created January 2nd, 2002 and redesigned November 12th, 2005. Enjoy!
News and Updates:
6/15/2007- Bobbie Lanahan (Zelda's granddaughter) has won an award for her animated film "The Naked Hitchhiker"! A link for that (and a few others) can be found on the left side.
8/7/2006- The forum was, to put it bluntly, a dismal failure. Oh well...the groups are doing just fine and I'm content with that.
5/13/2006- Tweaked the main page a little bit...added a photo marquee and rearranged the link bar on the right hand side.
5/5/2006- The old forum disappeared mysteriously...with no way to contact the webmasters. I have found a new place to bring my forum and set it up today. It is set up as close to the other forum as I could get it. I apologize for the trouble and hope to see you there!
3/23/2006- Created a new branch of MTTZ yesterday...we are now at MySpace. SPREAD THE WORD. I have also changed the name and introduction of the Yahoo group to match the MySpace group and the site better, and made the pop quiz a little easier to take!
3/21/2006- Added photos of Ring Lardner, Sheilah Graham, Harold Ober and Maxwell Perkins to the galleries, also added a link to my off-site MTTZ photo set to all gallery pages. Flickr has the complete collection of photos for MTTZ, some of which are not shown on the main galleries.
one of Zelda's favorite flowers, the peony
