Their romance defined the “Jazz Age” — so it’s perhaps not surprising that “Great Gatsby” author F. Scott Fitzgerald and mercurial wife Zelda found themselves in Bermuda during that free-spirited period when the island’s tourism industry was enjoying an unprecedented vogue among America’s literati and rich and famous.
Married after the publication of his first novel, “This Side of Paradise”, Princeton-educated Scott Fitzgerald and his Alabama-born, Southern belle bride became embodiments of the Roaring Twenties.
Scott Fitzgerald’s term the “Jazz Age” came to describe the years between the end of World War One and the onset of the Great Depression when there were revolutions in musical taste, fashion and social mores; generally regarded as one of America’s greatest 20th century writers, both his life and work both have come to be associated with the joys of young love, wealth and success — as well as the tragedies which come with excess and failure
Youthful, beautiful and supremely talented, following their 1920 marriage Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald [pictured above] were dubbed the “golden couple” by American newspapers which covered their every move as assiduously as they did the movie stars
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