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F. Scott Fitzgerald is remembered as one of the most influential American writers of the 20th century for “The Great Gatsby” and other works, but his wife, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, was also a published author. What was the title of her 1932 novel?

  • A “Save Me the Waltz”
  • B “The Last Waltz”
  • C “Big Blonde”
  • D “The Green Hat”
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From Michiko Kakutani’s 1991 review of “Zelda Fitzgerald: The Collected Writings,” edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli:

As for “Save Me the Waltz,” it’s a strangely evocative novel, episodic in structure, painterly in its description, almost hallucinatory in overall effect. Written in 1932 while Zelda was recovering from one of her breakdowns at the Phipps Clinic of Johns Hopkins Hospital, it turns the trajectory of the Fitzgeralds’ lives into a thinly disguised parable of romantic anticipation and disillusionment. Zelda becomes Alabama Beggs, the high-spirited, wise-cracking daughter of an eminent Southern judge; Scott becomes David Knight, an artist with large, hectic ambitions.

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