Zelda Fitzgerald: Her Voice in Paradise (97 page)

27. Max Perkins, Scott’s consistently generous publishing editor at Scribner’s

28. Zelda Sayre in June 1918, as she looked when Scott first met her in Montgomery

29. ‘Birth of a Flapper’: Zelda’s earliest known drawing, crayon on paper, 1921: her book jacket design for Scott’s
The
Beautiful
and
Damned

30. ‘Family in Underwear’, one of Zelda’s earliest paper dolls featuring herself, her husband and child,
c.
1927

31.
Times
Square
New
York
(gouache on paper, 13½” x 17⅝”),
c.
1944. One of the romantic cityscapes Zelda painted after Scott’s death, as a memory of the places they had visited together

32. Scott with three-year-old Scottie in Rome 1924

33. The Fitzgeralds aboard ship leaving for France, 1928. Tension already shows on Zelda’s face and in Scott’s posture

34. Zelda believing herself ‘recovered’ after her initial hospitalizations, 1931

35. Scottie at her graduation, 1938. She did not want Zelda to attend the ceremony and ignored her when she arrived

36. Dr Irving Pine, Zelda’s last psychiatrist, in 1990. He believed Zelda had been misdiagnosed and suffered as much from medical mistreatment as from her mental illness

37. Zelda and her first grandson Tim, not long before her death in 1948

38. Zelda playing volley ball with her fellow patients during sports recreation at Highland Hospital, late 1930s. Photo taken by Mary Parker, Zelda’s art therapist

39. The fire at Highland Hospital, 11 March 1948. Zelda, locked in an upstairs room, had died in the blaze