Well before she met F. Scott Fitzgerald and became an embodiment of Jazz Age glamour and dissipation, Zelda Sayre was an icon in her hometown. In the genteel milieu of upper-class Montgomery, Alabama, the teenaged Zelda smoked cigarettes, spent more time

They were, arguably, the first celebrity couple of the modern age, Jazz-era avatars running wild in a new century. She was a precocious, spoiled Southern belle and bad girl; he was a Midwesterner and Princeton dropout who had turned his experience into th

“Tennessee Williams's Memoirs," published this week by Doubleday & company, was originally entitled "Flee, Flee, This Sad Hotel," a quotation from a poem by Anne Sexton. The author changed the title when he realized that " my life is as much a merry taver

His divorce from Carol Henning final, Steinbeck marries Gwyndolyn Conger. He later travels to Europe and North Africa to cover World War II as a correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune newspaper.