Save Me The Waltz

Zelda Fitzgerald (1900 - 1948) was an American novelist and the wife of writer F.Scott Fitzgerald. She was an icon of the 1920s. She wrote magazine articles and short stories, and at 27 became obsessed with a career as a ballerina. Zelda was diagnosed with schizophrenia and died in a hospital fire.

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.' One of the great literary curios of the twentieth century Save Me the Waltz is the first and only novel by the wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald. During the years when Fitzgerald was working on Tender is the Night, Zelda Fitzgerald was preparing her own story, which strangely parallels the narrative of her husband, throwing a fascinating light on Scott Fitzgerald's life and work. In its own right, it is a vivid and moving story: the confessional of a famous glamour girl of the affluent 1920s and an aspiring ballerina which captures the spirit of an era. 'If ever there was a pair whose fantasies matched, it was Zelda Sayre and Scott Fitzgerald' Edmund Wilson Christened the 'the First American Flapper', Zelda Fitzgerald was a famous glamour girl of the 1920s and an asp.ing ballerina. Save Me the Waltz is her first and only novel. It is a vivid and moving story - a confessional which captures the spirit of an era and one that illuminates the life and work of her husband, F. Scott Fitzgerald. See also: Tender is the Night