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BIOGRAPHY; Zelda's undoing; F. Scott Fitzgerald dominated his wife and destroyed her ambitions. An engrossing new biography allows her voice to be heard.(ENTERTAINMENT)

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From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
Date: 20030608
Author:Winegar, Karin

Byline: Karin Winegar

Special to the Star Tribune

To a writer, everything and everyone is material.

Certainly this is true of F. Scott Fitzgerald, who even used remarks his wife made during labor as fodder for his stories.

In "Zelda Fitzgerald, Her Voice in Paradise," author Sally Cline focuses on Zelda not exclusively as "wife of famous man" or as Jazz Age flapper icon, but on her ambitions and aspirations. These became painfully entangled with a man who, Cline writes, wanted her to be a "complementary intelligence concerned exclusively with his interests and ...

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