WRITER

Zelda Fitzgerald

1900 - 1948

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Zelda Fitzgerald (née Sayre; July 24, 1900 – March 10, 1948) was an American novelist, painter, and socialite. Born in Montgomery, Alabama, to a wealthy Southern family, she became locally famous for her beauty and high spirits. In 1920, she married writer F. Scott Fitzgerald after the popular success of his debut novel, This Side of Paradise. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Zelda Fitzgerald has received more than 7,372,446 page views. Her biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Zelda Fitzgerald is the 1,060th most popular writer (down from 994th in 2019), the 1,236th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,185th in 2019) and the 120th most popular American Writer.

Zelda Fitzgerald is most famous for being the wife of the great American author, F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.83

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Zelda Fitzgerald ranks 1,060 out of 7,302Before her are Martin Andersen Nexø, Zhuanxu, Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Ernst Barlach, Adalbert Stifter, and Ibn Sirin. After her are Kazi Nazrul Islam, Titus Pomponius Atticus, Egeria, Ernst Toller, Valerie Solanas, and Sonia Rykiel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Zelda Fitzgerald ranks 49Before her are Thomas Wolfe, Howard H. Aiken, Pedro Cea, Raphael Lemkin, Edith Frank, and Maria of Yugoslavia. After her are Maurice Thorez, Jean Negulesco, Nathalie Sarraute, Yves Tanguy, Pridi Banomyong, and Evald Aav. Among people deceased in 1948, Zelda Fitzgerald ranks 38Before her are D. W. Griffith, Iwane Matsui, Pompeu Fabra, Kantarō Suzuki, Emil Ludwig, and Yoshiko Kawashima. After her are Hans Aumeier, Uzeyir Hajibeyov, Kōki Hirota, Tamam Shud case, Josef Bühler, and Dieter Wisliceny.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Zelda Fitzgerald ranks 1,236 out of 20,380Before her are Edna Purviance (1895), Blake Edwards (1922), Dick Van Dyke (1925), Robert Reich (1946), Martha Washington (1731), and E. O. Wilson (1929). After her are Lady Gaga (1986), Robert Lucas Jr. (1937), Anne Hathaway (1982), Pete Seeger (1919), Uma Thurman (1970), and Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. (1941).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Zelda Fitzgerald ranks 120Before her are Noah Gordon (1926), William Gibson (1948), Mary Higgins Clark (1927), Marshall Rosenberg (1934), Sam Shepard (1943), and Tess Gerritsen (1953). After her are Valerie Solanas (1936), Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840), Michael Connelly (1956), Norman Mailer (1923), John Grisham (1955), and John Updike (1932).