07/25/2025
Happy Birthday to Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, born July 24, 1900. The most important person in Scott Fitzgerald’s life.
“By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.” -Zelda Fitzgerald
This quote perfectly illustrates Zelda Fitzgerald’s lifelong struggle to create her own artistic identity. Born in 1900 in Montgomery, Alabama, she entered a world that was just starting to consider the possibility that women might have the right to be independent citizens capable of making their own decisions. The youngest of six children, her parents raised Zelda as a free-spirited, imaginative and thoroughly spoiled little girl. By the age of eighteen, when she met F. Scott Fitzgerald at one of the many parties she attended, she embodied the quintessential southern belle.
We celebrate Zelda on every boat tour.
