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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 20030420
Author:Susan Coll

ZELDA FITZGERALD

Her Voice in Paradise

By Sally Cline

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A certain weariness sets in at the prospect of another revisionist history of a talented if unstable, or overshadowed and underappreciated, female artist. Virginia Woolf, Frida Kahlo and Sylvia Plath all leap to mind, efforts by biographers, novelists and filmmakers sparking debates among academic loyalists about issues as mundane as the shape of a nose without casting much new light on their subjects.

Yet there is something fascinating about these women. All managed to create works of enduring art despite tragic ...

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