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Writer's wife creative in her own right.

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From: Columbus Dispatch (Columbus, OH)
Date: 20060205
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Byline: Christopher A . Yates

Feb. 5--MASSILLON, Ohio -- F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda, embodied the Roaring '20s. They lived with reckless abandon, raced toward selfdestruction and mirrored the title of one of Fitzgerald's novels, The Beautiful and the Damned.

With works such as The Great Gatsby, his place in American literature is secure. But do many people know of the creative output of his flapper wife?

"Zelda by Herself," on view at the Massillon Museum, focuses on the visual art of a woman who was also a writer and a dancer.

The exhibit presents ...

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