Zelda FITZGERALD

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AmericanBorn Zelda SAYRE

American novelist

Born on July 24, 1900 in Montgomery, Alabama, USA , United States

Died on March 10, 1948 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA

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Born in Montgomery, Alabama, Zelda Sayre was the youngest of six children. Her mother, Minerva Buckner "Minnie" Machen (November 23, 1860 – January 13, 1958), named her after characters in two little-known stories: Jane Howard's "Zelda: A Tale of the Massachusetts Colony" (1866) and Robert Edward Francillon's "Zelda's Fortune" (1874). In each story, Zelda is a Gypsy. A spoiled child, Zelda was doted upon by her mother, but her father, Anthony Dickinson Sayre (1858–1930))—a justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama and one of Alabama's leading jurists—was a strict and remote man. The family had descended from early settlers of ...   Born in Montgomery, Alabama, Zelda Sayre was the youngest of six children. Her mother, Minerva Buckner "Minnie" Machen (November 23, 1860 – January 13, 1958), named her after characters in two little-known stories: Jane Howard's "Zelda: A Tale of the Massachusetts Colony" (1866) and Robert Edward Francillon's "Zelda's Fortune" (1874). In each story, Zelda is a Gypsy. A spoiled child, Zelda was doted upon by her mother, but her father, Anthony Dickinson Sayre (1858–1930))—a justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama and one of Alabama's leading jurists—was a strict and remote man. The family had descended from early settlers of Long Island, who had moved to Alabama before the Civil War. By the time of Zelda's birth, the Sayres were a prominent Southern family. Her great-uncle, John Tyler Morgan, served six terms in the United States Senate; her paternal grandfather edited a newspaper in Montgomery; and her maternal grandfather was Willis Benson Machen, who served a partial term as a U.S. senator from Kentucky.



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