Zelda Famous Quotes

Stuyvesants and Vanderbilts and Roosevelts and staid, respectable Washington Square. Trinity Church. Mrs. Astor’s famous ballroom, the Four Hundred, snobby Ward McAllister, that traitor Edith Wharton, Delmonico’s. Zany Zelda and Scott in the Plaza fountain, the Algonquin Round Table, Dottie Parker and her razor tongue and pen, the Follies. Cholly Knickerbocker, 21, Lucky Strike dances at the Stork, El Morocco. The incomparable Hildegarde playing the Persian Room at the Plaza, Cary Grant kneeling at her feet in awe. Fifth Avenue: Henri Bendel, Bergdorf’s, Tiffany’s.

The Lost Generation – a term named for the period of time those literary greats reached adulthood after the war – was almost like rebellion, a coming-of-age for creatives. Expat American writers, readers and poets threw off the shackles of the past in a post-World War One era and lived bohemian Parisian literary lives on their own terms. The phrase was coined by Gertrude Stein and included famous faces such as Hemingway, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, and Sylvia Beach.