{"id":1541,"date":"2014-01-01T10:07:56","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T15:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/gl\/?p=1541"},"modified":"2021-02-23T13:44:35","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T18:44:35","slug":"scott-and-zelda-fitzgerald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/2014\/01\/01\/scott-and-zelda-fitzgerald\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lecture Date: March 18, 2014<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"3\/18 Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/96088536?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1100\" height=\"619\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/umwwebmaster.wpengine.com\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2014\/01\/Fitzgerald.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-59597 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/umwwebmaster.wpengine.com\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2014\/01\/Fitzgerald-207x300.png\" alt=\"Fitzgerald\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2014\/01\/Fitzgerald-207x300.png 207w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2014\/01\/Fitzgerald.png 318w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0One of the twentieth century\u2019s most iconic literary geniuses, and his insane, disruptive wife\u2014the woman who married him for his fame and fortune, then became the architect of his ruin. \u00a0Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald were two young, intense, intelligent, creative, energetic, often na\u00efve people whose strengths warred\u2014daily, almost\u2014with their weaknesses. According to Fowler, they were victims of circumstance, and of themselves \u2014 idealists who somehow couldn\u2019t quite break away from their conservative roots, or from each other. \u00a0\u201cNothing with the Fitzgeralds has ever been simple,\u201d she says. \u201cWould we still be reading the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald today had he not met the young Montgomery, Alabama debutante Zelda Sayre in 1918 and married her at St. Patrick\u2019s Cathedral in Manhattan two years later, a mere week after the publication of his first novel, <i>This Side of Paradise<\/i>? What is it about Zelda that made her irresistible to Scott and an anathema to Ernest Hemingway? \u2018First flapper,\u2019 feminist icon, subject of numerous biographies and stage plays, Zelda continues to fascinate us even today.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"color: #b81237;font-family: MuseoSlab;font-weight: 900\">Lecture Pictures<\/h2>\n<p>[flickr_set id=&#8221;72157643804773534&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"color: #B81237;font-family: MuseoSlab;font-weight: 900\">Speaker: Therese Anne Fowler<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_54751\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54751\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/umwwebmaster.wpengine.com\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2013\/10\/Fitzgerald1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-54751 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/umwwebmaster.wpengine.com\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2013\/10\/Fitzgerald1.png\" alt=\"Fitzgerald\" width=\"200\" height=\"215\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-54751\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Therese Anne Fowler, Author of Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Therese Anne Fowler is the author of the <i>New York Times<\/i> bestselling novel <i>Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald<\/i>. Raised in the Midwest, she migrated to North Carolina in 1995 and then, as a newly single parent, proceeded to earn a B.A. in sociology and cultural anthropology from North Carolina State University. She followed that with an MFA in creative writing, a position teaching creative writing to undergraduates, and the publication of four novels to date. A lover of literature, history, culture, and society, Therese often speaks at literary festivals, luncheons, and conferences, and has contributed essays to several national publications. Recommended by <i>O, Glamour, People, Manhattan, Harper\u2019s Bazaar, EW, Huffington Post, The Millions, Publisher\u2019s Weekly, and USA Today<\/i>, among many others, <i>Z<\/i> has been called \u201ca richly imagined novel\u2026Zelda\u2019s touching story is also fascinating and funny; it animates an entire era.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lecture Date: March 18, 2014 &nbsp; \u00a0One of the twentieth century\u2019s most iconic literary geniuses, and his insane, disruptive wife\u2014the woman who married him for his fame and fortune, then became the architect of his ruin. \u00a0Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald were two young, intense, intelligent, creative, energetic, often na\u00efve people whose strengths warred\u2014daily, almost\u2014with their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"umw_cb_additional_links":[[]],"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_advisory_expires_time":"","_advisory_meta_include":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-1541","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-lectures","7":"tag-4","8":"entry"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - 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