Zelda Fitzgerald: Her Voice in Paradise (96 page)

14. Zelda and Scott pose for a
Hearst’s
International
Magazine
photograph, 1923. Zelda called it her ‘Elizabeth Arden face’ and pasted it in her scrapbook

15. Marie Hersey, Scott’s school chum and later confidante in his home town St Paul, Minnesota

16. Xandra Kalman,
c
. 1921: Zelda’s closest, most supportive friend during her young motherhood days in St Paul

17. Sara Haardt, Zelda’s frail writer friend from Montgomery who died aged 37 in 1935. Sara always received more encouragement for her writing from her husband H.L. Mencken than Zelda did from Scott

18. Critic H.L. Mencken, Scott’s literary mentor. Mencken encouraged and published Haardt’s fiction then after a long courtship married her in 1930, the year Zelda had her first breakdown

19. Annabel Fitzgerald, Scott’s sister, 1919, aged eighteen. ‘Scott advised his sister on conversation, couture and cosmetics and on how to listen to men’

20. The Fitzgerald family in the waves. Early happy years for Zelda, Scott and Scottie

21. Lubov Egorova, Zelda’s beloved ballet teacher, autographed Paris 1928

22. Painter Romaine Brooks whom Zelda met on Capri, 1925

23. Parisian influences: writers Natalie Barney and Djuna Barnes, Nice, France 1928–30. Zelda frequented Barney’s literary salon in rue Jacob, Paris

24. Emily Vanderbilt, who fascinated both Zelda and Scott and who committed suicide in May 1934

25. The beach at La Garoupe raked by Gerald Murphy, seen here under umbrellas with his wife Sara and Etienne and Edith de Beaumont,
c
. 1924. Zelda and Scott visited regularly from their villa at Juan-les-Pins

26. Ernest Hemingway, Zelda’s enemy and Scott’s hero, 1931. Hemingway’s comic inscription to Scott on this photograph lewdly suggested he was the adventurous Princetonian travel writer Halliburton