Kathryn chetkovich biography

Zelda Fitzgerald's partisans insist that her literary career was thwarted by her husband, Scott.

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In the 1920s he was her wary mentor, encouraging her to write, but he sold her first stories under his name because it brought a better price. Later they shared the credit for her work, but that left her still a junior partner. When finally she wrote independently about their marriage, notably in her novel Save Me the Waltz, he claimed she was stealing material that was rightly his.

Chronic mental illness weakened her case, so her writing received little serious attention until, decades after her death, feminist critics took her up.

Kathy chetkovich

Those who know that story may recall Zelda when they read "Envy," a remarkable essay by Kathryn Chetkovich in the current issue of Granta. A writer with one little-known book behind her, Chetkovich has lived for years with Jonathan Franzen.

She was with him as he worked on a difficult novel about a troubled family, she was there when finally his