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The `irresistible' Fitzgeralds

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 19931107
Author:Bruce McCabe, Globe Staff

Zelda Fitzgerald, the wife of novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald, wasn't his muse or his composer, as some revisionists think; she was his codependent, an indelible presence in his writing and his coconspirator in creating the Jazz Age.

"He was a lyrical, imaginative writer. She wasn't a writer," said Benedict Fitzgerald, son of the late poet, scholar, translator and Harvard professor Robert Fitzgerald, in a telephone interview about "Zelda." Benedict wrote the film that stars Natasha Richardson and Timothy Hutton as the famous star-crossed couple (it airs tonight at 8 on TNT).

Benedict, no ...

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