Zelda sayre began as a southern beauty, became an international wonder, and died by fire in a madhouse. With her husband, f. Scott fitzgerald, she moved in a golden aura of excitement, romance, and promise. The epitome o...Zelda sayre began as a southern beauty, became an international wonder, and died by fire in a madhouse. With her husband, f. Scott fitzgerald, she moved in a golden aura of excitement, romance, and promise. The epitome of the jazz age, together they rode the crest of the era: to its collapse and their own.