The Beautiful and the Damned

Zelda Fitzgerald

When her husband's novel, The Beautiful and the Damned, was published, Zelda Fitzgerald was asked if the heroine was modeled after her. "It seems to me," she replied, "that on one page I recognize a portion of an old diary of mine which disappeared shortly after my marriage, and also scraps of letters which sound to me vaguely familiar. In fact, Mr. Fitzgerald -- I believe that is how he spells his name -- seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home."

~James Charlton & Lisbeth Mark, The Writer's Home Companion, 1987.

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