Zelda Fitzgerald was an American novelist, painter, and socialite. Born in Montgomery, Alabama, to a wealthy Southern family, she became locally famous for her beauty and high spirits. In 1920, she married writer F. Scott Fitzgerald after the success of his debut novel, This Side of Paradise. The novel catapulted the young couple into the public eye, and she became known in the national press as the first American flapper. Because of their wild antics and incessant partying, she and her husband became regarded in the newspapers as the enfants terribles of the Jazz Age. Alleged infidelity and bitter recriminations soon undermined their marriage. After Zelda traveled abroad to Europe, her mental health deteriorated, and she had suicidal and homicidal tendencies, which required psychiatric care. Her doctors diagnosed her with schizophrenia, although later posthumous diagnoses posit bipolar disorder.

While institutionalized at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, she authored the 1932 novel Save Me the Waltz, a semi-autobiographical account of her early life in the American South during the Jim Crow era and her marriage to F. Scott Fitzgerald. Upon its publication by Scribner's, the novel garnered mostly negative reviews and experienced poor sales. The critical and commercial failure of Save Me the Waltz disappointed Zelda and led her to pursue her other interests as a playwright and a painter. In the fall of 1932, she completed a stage play titled Scandalabra, but Broadway producers unanimously declined to produce it. Disheartened, Zelda next attempted to paint watercolors, but, when her husband arranged their exhibition in 1934, the critical response proved equally disappointing.

While the two lived apart, Scott died of occlusive coronary arteriosclerosis in December 1940. After her husband's death, she attempted to write a second novel, Caesar's Things, but her recurrent voluntary institutionalization for mental illness interrupted her writing, and she failed to complete the work. By this time, she had endured over ten years of electroshock therapy and insulin shock treatments, and she suffered from severe memory loss. In March 1948, while sedated and locked in a room on the fifth floor of Highland Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina, she died in a fire. Her body was identified by her dental records and one of her slippers. A follow-up investigation raised the possibility that the fire had been a work of arson by a disgruntled or mentally disturbed hospital employee.

A 1970 biography by Nancy Milford was a finalist for the National Book Award. After the success of Milford's biography, scholars viewed Zelda's artistic output in a new light. Her novel Save Me the Waltz became the focus of literary studies exploring different facets of the work: how her novel contrasted with Scott's depiction of their marriage in Tender Is the Night and how 1920s consumer culture placed mental stress on modern women. Concurrently, renewed interest began in Zelda's artwork, and her paintings were posthumously exhibited in the United States and Europe. In 1992, she was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame.

All published appearances and works of Zelda Fitzgerald from before January 1, )-(95)}} are public domain in the US.

Some notable appearances are listed below:

* The Beautiful and Damned - Dusk Jacket Cover Design (1921)
* Eulogy on the Flapper in Metropolitan Magazine (June 1922)
* Fifth Avenue (Painting) by Zelda Fitzgerald
* Still Life with Cyclamen (Painting) by Zelda Fitzgerald

* Profile sketch of Zelda by artist Gordan Bryant in Metropolitan Magazine (June 1922)
* Portrait of Fitzgerald by Harrison Fisher (1927)

*Zelda's name served as inspiration for Princess Zelda, the eponymous character of The Legend of Zelda series of video games.
*Zelda was the inspiration for "Witchy Woman", the song of seductive enchantresses written by Don Henley and Bernie Leadon for the Eagles.
*Zelda appears in the DC Comics television series ''Legends of Tomorrow'' Season 4 Episode "Tender is the Nate".

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelda_Fitzgerald Wikipedia]
*[https://comicvine.gamespot.com/zelda-fitzgerald/4005-96475/ ComicVine]
*[https://historical-figures-in-media.fandom.com/wiki/Zelda_Fitzgerald Historical Figures in Media Wiki]
*[https://www.comics.org/searchNew/?q=Zelda%20Fitzgerald GCD]
*[https://arrow.fandom.com/wiki/Zelda_Fitzgerald Arrowverse Wiki]
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