A reader since age four, she often abused her library privileges by keeping favorite books out just a little too long. Her passion for baseball was exceeded only by her love of books. Thanks to the implementation of Title IX legislation and her father’s willingness to fight on her behalf, Therese became one of the first girls in the U.S.
An avowed tomboy, Therese thwarted her grandmother’s determined attempts to dress her in frills-and, to further her point, insisted on playing baseball despite her town having a perfectly good girls’ softball league. Therese Anne Fowler ( pronounced ta-reece) is the author of severl books, including: A Good Neighborhood (2020), A Well Behaved Woman: A Novel of the Vanderbilts 2018),and Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald (2013).įowler is the third child and only daughter of a couple who raised their children in Milan, Illinois. Currently-lives in Wake Forest, North Carolina.Education-B.A., M.F.A., North Carolina State University.How can she forge her own identity while fighting her demons and Scott’s, too? With brilliant insight and imagination, Therese Anne Fowler brings us Zelda’s irresistible story as she herself might have told it. Who is Zelda, other than the wife of a famous-sometimes infamous-husband? But not even Jay Gatsby’s parties go on forever. Troubles, at first, seem to fade like morning mist. Each place they go becomes a playground: New York City, Long Island, Hollywood, Paris, and the French Riviera-where they join the endless party of the glamorous, sometimes doomed Lost Generation that includes Ernest Hemingway, Sara and Gerald Murphy, and Gertrude Stein. Zelda bobs her hair, adopts daring new fashions, and revels in this wild new world. What comes, here at the dawn of the Jazz Age, is unimagined attention and success and celebrity that will make Scott and Zelda legends in their own time.Įveryone wants to meet the dashing young author of the scandalous novel-and his witty, perhaps even more scandalous wife. Patrick’s Cathedral and take the rest as it comes.
Her father is deeply unimpressed.īut after Scott sells his first novel, This Side of Paradise, to Scribner’s, Zelda optimistically boards a train north, to marry him in the vestry of St. Scott Fitzgerald at a country club dance in 1918, she is seventeen years old and he is a young army lieutenant stationed in Alabama.īefore long, the “ungettable” Zelda has fallen for him despite his unsuitability: Scott isn’t wealthy or prominent or even a Southerner, and keeps insisting, absurdly, that his writing will bring him both fortune and fame. When beautiful, reckless Southern belle Zelda Sayre meets F. I wish I could tell everyone who thinks we’re ruined, Look closer.and you’ll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true.
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