Zelda Fitzgerald, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby. Spent many years in and out of mental institutions after being diagnosed with schizophrenia. Died in 1948 in a Highland Hospital when a fire broke out in the kitchen. Zelda was locked in a room awaiting electroshock therapy at the time of the fire.Zelda Fitzgerald, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby. Spent many years in and out of mental institutions after being diagnosed with schizophrenia. Died in 1948 in a Highland Hospital when a fire broke out in the kitchen. Zelda was locked in a room awaiting electroshock therapy at the time of the fire.
Zelda Fitzgerald, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby. Spent many years in and out of mental institutions after being diagnosed with schizophrenia. Died in 1948 in a Highland Hospital when a fire broke out in the kitchen. Zelda was locked in a room awaiting electroshock therapy at the time of the fire.