Graham's Reviews > Zelda

Though there are more recent Zelda Fitzgerald biographies available, Milford's is still the best of the lot. Zelda's life makes for an emotionally exhausting read, but this is an invaluable book for anyone interested in either of the Fitzgeralds. This book is to be recommended even to readers with just a casual interest in the 1920s, given the Fitzgeralds' connections to most of the prominent writers and artists of the period. Those who come to know the details of Zelda's life and literary output may find their estimation of F. Scott Fitzgerald somewhat diminished upon finishing this book.

One criticism: I wish Milford had spent more time researching Zelda's life in the eight years between Scott's death and her own. Unfortunately, this is a subject glossed over by most of Zelda's biographers.