Diary & letters (1778-1840) as edited by her niece Charlotte Barrett

Some of his characters spoke just like Zelda. Did he БЂњstealБЂ«ideas from his wife? Did he pilfer parts of her writing? From time to time Zelda would mockingly talk about how entries in the diaries she kept at home would end up in her husbandБЂ™s novels-sometimes entire paragraphs. In a review she wrote of The Beautiful and Damned for the New York Tribune, she made this insinuation public: БЂњIt seems to me that on one page I recognized a portion of an old diary of mine which mysteriously disappeared shortly after my marriage, and also scraps of letters which, though considerably edited, sound to me vaguely familiar. In fact, Mr. Fitzgerald-I believe that is how he spells his name-seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.БЂ«[8] Perhaps every writer is a pickpocket of some sort, stealing inspiration from real life. Like magpies that canБЂ™t resist making off with shiny objects, authors flap their wings across the boundless sky looking for themes to write about. And when they find one, they snatch it up ...»