젤다 피츠제럴드

소개

젤다 피츠제럴드(영어: Zelda Fitzgerald, 1900년 7월 24일 ~ 1948년 3월 10일)는 미국의 소설가로, F. 스콧 피츠제럴드의 아내로도 잘 알려져 있다. F. 스콧 피츠제럴드의 첫 작품 《낙원의 이쪽》 (1920년)의 성공 이후 부부가 유명 인사가 되었다.

Zelda Fitzgerald was an American novelist, painter, writer, 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 popular 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.