"When beautiful, reckless Southern belle Zelda Sayre meets F. Scott Fitzgerald at a country club dance in 1918, she is seventeen years old and he is a young army lieutenant stationed in Alabama. Before long, the 'ungettable' Zelda has fallen for him despite his unsuitability: Sc…
A tale inspired by the marriage of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald follows their union in defiance of her father's opposition and her abandonment of the provincial finery of her upbringing in favor of a scandalous flapper identity that gains her entry into the literary party scene…
"Ellen Tucker Emerson's biography of her mother provides important insights into the life of Ralph Waldo Emerson's wife of 46 years. This work does much to bring her out of the literary shadow and shows Lidian to have possessed a lively wit. She was a feminist and a literary fig…
"Ellen Tucker Emerson's biography of her mother provides important insights into the life of Ralph Waldo Emerson's wife of 46 years. This work does much to bring her out of the literary shadow and shows Lidian to have possessed a lively wit. She was a feminist and a literary fig…
Prize-winning French novel about the turbulent relationship of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald as seen by Zelda.
"In this account of the scandalous life and the violent times of the Marquis de Sade, novelist, essayist, and biographer Francine du Plessix Gray resurrects this legendary man's relationship with his family - his devoted wife, his iron-willed mother-in-law, and his three childre…
