Z: a novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler

This is a perfect compliment to The Paris Wife - rich with literary giants and European lifestyle.  Although this is Zelda's story, it is hard to separate it from the struggles of F. Scott Fitzgerald.  She is a precocious southern deb. He is a dashing but poor military man when they meet. They become the extravagant darlings of the literary society. The paparazzi love them.  The reality of their lives is much different.  Like Hemingway, it is easy to hate the self involved writer but like the women who loved them and suffered in their wake, there is something so attractive about the confidence they exude and the vulnerability that only share only with the women closest to them.  This is a work of fiction but well researched and worth the read.