It’s been almost 80 years since Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald passed away in Asheville in the tragic Highland Hospital fire on March 10, 1948, and people are still enraptured by her persona. Learn more about Zelda’s life and those of her contemporaries by attending the 2024 Zelda Fitzgerald Week events, happening March 7-10. This year’s events highlight the circumstances of women creatives from this period.
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This day-long event at the East Asheville library is free and everyone is welcome.
- 1-2:30 p.m. – Dr. Marsha Gordon, a Film Studies professor at North Carolina State University, and former co-host of movies on the radio, will discuss her new biography of writer Ursula Parrott, Becoming the Ex-Wife. Parrott’s life reflects many issues Zelda herself faced in her professional career. Gordon loves researching, writing, and speaking about American film and culture. She regularly introduces movies, moderate panels, makes radio and podcast appearances, and lectures.
- 2:30-3 p.m. – Book sales/signing/intermission (Malaprop’s Books).
- 3-4:30 p.m. – Screening of The Divorcee, which Dr. Gordon will introduce. The Divorcee is a crowd pleaser—it won Norma Shearer a Best Actress Academy Award and was based on Parrott’s 1929 best-seller, Ex-Wife. And it’s very much in the Jazz Age style with its deco design and fashion!