Zelda (30 page)

Zelda, Scott and Scottie on the Riviera, 1924

The Fitzgeralds in Paris, 1925

Scottie and Scott on the plage, about 1925

Scott at Aries, 1929

ABOVE: Zelda at the gorge at Constantine, February 1930
RIGHT : Scott and Zelda in North Africa, February 1930

Christmas at Gstaad, 1930

“A Real Reunion,” taken shortly after Fitzgerald’s father’s death, January 1931

“Recovered,” 1931

Zelda at Prangins

Fitzgerald’s chart for Tender Is the Night
paralleling Zelda’s case and Nicole Diver’s

Self-portrait, probably done in the early forties

Mrs. Sayre, Scott and Zelda in North Carolina, about 1938

A late snapshot of Zelda, taken near Asheville

I determined to find an impersonal escape, a world in which I could express myself and walk without the help of somebody who was always far from me. I had begun dancing in Paris, with a great ballet dancer, but 1 was obliged to leave her because of my illness…. When I returned to Paris I went again into the same school. I have worked four hours a day and in the evening, and Sundays, during the holidays, on the boat when 1 was travelling. I began to understand it.