July 2019 Reading List

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July 2019 Reading List

Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald

“Dearest: I am always grateful for the all the loyalties you gave me,” Zelda Fitzgerald wrote to her husband F. Scott in 1939, a year before he died, adding, “Nothing could have survived our life.” The flamboyant Jazz Age couple were devoted letter writers during their stretches apart—even during their last years of life when she was a resident at the Highland Mental Hospital in Asheville and he lived in Hollywood with the gossip columnist Sheilah Graham, with whom he’d had a years-long affair. First published in 2002, Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda tells their love story in their own words through their collected and annotated letters, and is now reissued with a new introduction by their granddaughter Eleanor Lanahan.