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| Zelda Sayre, 1918 |
A few months ago, I posted an excerpt from a book about Zelda Fitzgerald, who has fascinated me ever since I started reading her husband's work and, through it, learned about her (see "Just Because: 'Zelda: A Biography,' " Nov. 2012). There's a new book out about her now, whose description of her and her wild, creative, and ultimately tragic life leads one to think of her as "the original It girl." If she wasn't the first, she was certainly one of the most affecting. Her husband, F. Scott, called her "the first American Flapper." But there's another label I would give her, too, and that is "the quintessential Steel Magnolia": http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/9962461/Rehabilitating-Zelda-Fitzgerald-the-original-It-Girl.html
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