That’s the myth, and when Fowler first considered writing Z, it was all she knew. She is remembered as impulsive, usually drunk and eventually schizophrenic, and together she and Scott ruled the Jazz Age as American royalty. Scott’s legendary wife, as defined by media, literature and time, is less a real woman and more a mythical flapper creature.
But as Therese Anne Fowler reveals in her new novel, Z, that’s not the whole story.į. Add a dollop of insanity, and that’s our Zelda. Scott’s notorious female characters: devastating Rosalind from This Side of Paradise and vacuous Gloria from The Beautiful and Damned. Popular understanding of Zelda Fitzgerald has her pegged as something between two of F.
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