Zelda Fitzgerald

Zelda Fitzgerald (1900–1948), née Sayre, was an American writer, dancer, and painter. She married the writer F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1920 and published several stories, some of them under his name. After training in ballet, she also studied art. Her autobiographically inspired novel, *Save Me the Waltz*, was published in 1932. Zelda Fitzgerald died in 1948 in a fire at Highland Mental Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina.