![]() ![]() Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald was born in Montgomery, Alabama on July 24, 1900. The daughter of a prominent judge, Anthony Dickinson Sayre (1858–1931), who served on the Supreme Court of Alabama, and Minnie Buckner Machen Sayre, she was the youngest of five children and lived a youthful life of privilege. As an adult, Frances would have her own career as a writer and become an active member of the Democratic Party. ![]() ![]() Scott had one child, a daughter they named Frances Scott Fitzgerald in 1921. She was working on her second unfinished novel, Caesar's Things, at the time of her death. She is buried with her husband in Old Saint Mary's Catholic Church Cemetery in Rockville, Maryland. (Photo: Bettman via Getty Images)ĭue to Zelda’s failing health, she was unable to attend her daughter’s wedding in 1943, but after the birth of her grandson, Zelda was reinvigorated and began to paint again in the last years of her life in Montgomery at her family’s homestead. Ultimately, however, her mental health began to fail and, on March 10, 1948, she died tragically in a fire at Highland Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina. ![]()
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